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Protecting warehouse workers around conveyer systems

4/29/2020

 
Protecting warehouse workers
An increasing number of warehouses are using conveyor systems to move products to and from different areas of the facility.

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FSAs, HSAs can now be used for non-prescription medications

4/28/2020

 
FSAs and HSAs
The recently enacted $2 trillion stimulus law aimed at providing financial assistance during the coronavirus outbreak also includes a key change on how health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts can be used. 
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Reopening a business after the coronavirus shutdown

4/22/2020

 
Reopening a business after coronavirus shutdown
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to have an unprecedented effect on daily life, many business owners are looking forward to the future and a return to normalcy. However, even when stay-at-home orders are lifted and nonessential businesses are allowed to resume operations, there’s a lot for organizations to consider before they reopen their doors. What’s more, many of these considerations are workplace-specific and could be more involved depending on the industry you operate in.
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To protect their customers and employees alike, it’s important for organizations to do their due diligence before opening their business back up to the public following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CDC guidance for employees following a COVID-19 diagnosis or exposure

4/20/2020

 
CDC Guidance for COVID-19 | LMC Insurance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidance for discontinuing home isolation following a COVID-19 diagnosis. The CDC also issued guidance for what essential workers should do following exposure to COVID-19.
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This guidance should be used for informational purposes and should not supersede the instructions given to employees by their health care provider. 

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OSHA offers interim guidance on COVID-19 reporting

4/17/2020

 
Reporting COVID-19 to OSHA
OSHA is not requiring most employers outside of the health care industry to record cases of COVID-19 among their employees, under interim guidance issued April 10.
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According to an agency press release, employers “other than those in the health care industry, emergency response organizations (e.g., emergency medical, firefighting and law enforcement services) and correctional institutions” generally will not be required to record COVID-19 cases because they “may have difficulty making determinations about whether workers who contracted COVID-19 did so due to exposures at work.

https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/19686-osha-relaxes-enforcement-of-recordkeeping-requirements-for-covid-19-cases

Businesses hit with malicious coronavirus-related emails

4/15/2020

 
Malicious Coronavirus-Related Emails
As if businesses didn't have enough to worry about, online scammers have started sending out malicious e-mails to organizations about coronavirus that appear to be from business partners or public institutions.

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CARES Act helps coronavirus-affected employers, employees

4/13/2020

 
CARES Act | LMC Insurance
The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act stimulus law to help American workers and businesses weather the outbreak has a number of provisions that employers and their workers need to know about, including:
  • Extended unemployment benefits
  • Requiring health plans to cover COVID-19-related costs
  • Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loans
  • Loans for large corporations 

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Six coronavirus tips for retirees

4/8/2020

 
Coronavirus tips
As you may already know, people over 60 are at higher risk for having complications if they contract COVID-19. And you surely know about the advice or orders to stay at home and self-isolate at this time to avoid risking infection. Even your grown children and grandchildren should not be popping over for visits.
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How to stay sane if you are isolating

4/6/2020

 
Staying home
As more and more of us are being told to either self-isolate with our families or self-quarantine under doctor's orders, we are spending almost all of our time at home, inside.

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CARES Act boosts unemployment benefits for laid-off, furloughed workers

4/1/2020

 
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With the sudden eruption of economic calamity, and more than 247 million Americans under stay-at-home orders, some 3.1 million individuals filed for unemployment in the last week of March.

To counter the blow to their income, Congress passed and President Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which in part allocates around $250 billion in unemployment benefits for the workers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The CARES Act extends unemployment insurance benefits to workers who are not eligible for additional benefits at the state level, as long as they lost their jobs due to the outbreak.

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