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On Wednesday, February 26th, the CDC reported the first case of COVID-19 where the source of the chain is, as yet, unknown.  That might indicate that community spread of the virus is going undetected in California. Regardless, the CDC has warned that spread of the virus is inevitable; Connecticut joined the chorus on Wednesday preaching preparedness. Employers that have overseas operations have already started to think of these issues. Complying with requirements in China, or Italy seem to change daily and the advice seems to get tweaked as well. And while employers need to be aware of the laws that will apply, the fact remains that the issues that employers have to deal with are far more complex.  There are literally hundreds of questions on the table.  What are just some of those questions? Suppose an employee’s child gets sick with suspected COVID-19.  Should the employee be barred from the workplace during the incubation period? And if so, are you prepared ...

In a bid to reawaken the Australian economy, the Federal Government is developing a return to work health and safety “toolkit” and is encouraging workplaces to become “COVID-safe”. At the same time, the Government is continuing to encourage the public to download its COVIDSafe digital contact-tracing App. As recently reported by our Data Privacy & Cybersecurity team, the App is designed to record Bluetooth “digital handshakes” between app users’ mobile phones. If an App user tests positive for COVID-19, they are asked to upload this data to the National COVIDSafe Data Store for the purpose of tracing community transmission of the virus. The Government is touting widespread use of the App as essential to the lifting of social distancing restrictions. In light of this message many employers will be urging their employees to download the App, in the hope of returning to normal business as soon as possible. However, any employer attempting to ...