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Gary Phelan talks to WICC about businesses requiring proof of COVID vaccination in order to enter certain establishments. Listen here
Gary Phelan on Eyewitness News 3
As we begin to shed the COVID-19 pandemic and many employees resist their employer’s call to return to the workplace, it is apparent that the surge in working from home will transform the American workplace.
Requiring employees to get vaccinated remains a gray area
WICC with Bob Mitchell
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A nurse fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Stamford Hospital last month. Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media Get the COVID vaccine or you might be fired. The federal government has ruled that employers can require their workers to get the...
Earlier this month, Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel A. Cardona stated that “we take very seriously the ADA requirements,” adding that Americans with Disabilities Act compliance was “non-negotiable.” Cardona was referring to whether school districts are...
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, teachers legally are entitled to reasonable accommodations if they need one. For many, that might mean teaching remotely, said Gary Phelan, a Stratford attorney who has represented teachers seeking accommodations. “There’s...
Photo: Contributed Photo : Jessica A. Slippen In a typical year, cooler temps and shorter days mean one thing: Back to school. For working parents, back to school is somewhat of a reprieve, guaranteeing most at least a six-hour window of defined child-free work time....
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Gary Phelan interviewed in Fast Company Magazine article " ‘I feel devastated’: COVID-19 long-haulers fight for understanding from employers."
“My boss wants me to go back to the office. I am immunocompromised. What can I do? Do I have any legal protections?” In March, Connecticut implemented Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive order stating that to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, all businesses needed to...
Positive coronavirus case reported at Kendall Elementary days before school set to begin A local attorney says school districts should be pushing back the start dates of school following a positive coronavirus case at a Norwalk school.
As office buildings and schools reopen, some adults 65 and older are forced to return to a work environment that carries a higher risk of exposure to COVID-19. Gary Phelan, who practices employment law in Westport as part of Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C., said he’s...
“You’re as young as you feel” is one of the most common clichés about getting older. Unfortunately, the novel coronavirus does not care about how old you feel. Older individuals have borne the brunt of COVID-19’s wrath. Part of the reason risk increases with age is...
Older employees and the workplace
The Americans with Disabilities Act states that an employer must provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability unless the accommodation causes undue hardship. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the ADA in the workplace, has stated that “it is unclear at this time whether COVID-19 is or could be a disability under the ADA.”