So here we are all again and, says the Government’s latest guidance, able to leave home to work only where it is “unreasonable for you to do your job from home“.  This is the umpteenth permutation of the same underlying message about working from home if you can, and was almost certainly meant to say where it is “not reasonably practicable” for you to work from home, or where you “cannot reasonably be expected” to…

In a previous blog we noted that as of November 2020, Belgium would again be in semi-lockdown and that one of the measures re-imposed was the obligation to work from home, unless this is realistically impossible. Employees whose work requires them to go the office need a confirmatory certificate from their employer attesting to this need. An employer allowing an employee to attend the workplace without that certificate commits an offence. Despite these measures,…

Presidential Proclamations 10014 and 10052 have been extended through March 31, 2021.  The two proclamations, which suspend U.S. entry and visa issuance for many immigrant and nonimmigrant visa applicants outside the U.S., were set to end after December 31, 2020.  Possible extensions were the subject of internal deliberations at the White House leading up to the New Year, with immigration restrictionists finally winning out over pro-business advocates who sought to let them expire.…

As 2020 comes to an end, the team at the Employment Law Worldview blog would like to take a moment to wish our clients, contacts, friends all the best in 2021! …

On Monday, December 21, Congress unveiled the nearly 5,600-page text of the latest COVID-19 relief package. If signed into law by the President, the omnibus spending and stimulus relief package will provide direct cash payments to many adults in the U.S., extend unemployment benefits, reopen the Paycheck Protection Program, and provide wide-ranging rental and educational assistance to those impacted by the pandemic. Buried among the lengthy bill is language related to the paid sick and…