Navigating Adapted Operations Advisory Series - Lessons Gained from Workplace Adjustments for COVID-19
Troutman Pepper is issuing a new series of client advisories to help businesses plan to resume workplace operations as they adapt to the challenges of sustaining business efforts during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
This series will address how businesses can reopen or control reopened offices while grappling with operational changes that could last much longer than anyone anticipated. We earlier raised questions all employers should ask before reopening: Return to Work: Questions All Employers Should Ask Before Reopening. We will address these and other topics in this new series and host a complimentary webinar on free speech in the COVID-19 workplace.
To provide you with vital practical guidance needed to adapt both your workplace and workforce to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, we also invite you to submit questions you have related to the topics below, or another topic you would like to see covered by the series. You can submit questions here.
The topics we will address in this multi-part advisory series (including providing comprehensive guidelines and checklists) cover considerations for:
- Phased reopening designs (e.g. who should return to work and when);
- Creating and implementing a COVID-19 response plan;
- Employee benefits;
- Insurance coverage;
- PPP loan requirements;
- Continuing/expanded telework arrangements;
- Workforce restructuring;
- Liability concerns;
- Managing whistleblower issues; and
- Related pertinent issues on sustaining adjusted business operations.