Coping with COVID: When Is It Safe to Work?

The current public health crisis has raised a variety of new challenges in the workplace. What is the employer’s responsibility to keep employees safe? Is an employee able to refuse to work? Can an employee share medical information without adverse consequences? In this episode of Coping with COVID, ALI President and Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, David F. Levi is joined by Kim J. Askew (DLA Piper), Patrick S. Casey (Sidley Austin), Cynthia Estlund (NYU Law), Samuel Estreicher (NYU Law), and Anton G. Hajjar (AFL-CIO-Retired) who are on top of these and other very complex issues of fairness, privacy, safety, and the law.

This episode was produced jointly by The American Law Institute and the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School. To listen to the podcast version of this episode, visit http://www.ali.org/podcast. The full episode transcript is available here. Please excuse typos due to inaudible passages or transcription errors.

The views and opinions expressed on this episode are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of The American Law Institute or the speakers’ organizations. The content presented in this broadcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered legal advice. Please be advised that episodes explore complex and often sensitive legal topics and may contain mature content.

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Published: 2020

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