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Gary Phelan talks to WICC about proof of COVID vaccination
Gary Phelan talks to WICC about businesses requiring proof of COVID vaccination in order to enter certain establishments. Listen here
Can your employer require you to get a COVID-19 vaccine?
Gary Phelan on Eyewitness News 3
Today’s Business: Returning to the workplace and the emerging crisis
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.
Gary Phelan talks to News12 about employers requiring COVID vaccinations
Requiring employees to get vaccinated remains a gray area
Bob Mitchell discusses a return to the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic on WICC
WICC with Bob Mitchell
Gary Phelan responds to clearhealthcosts.com regarding Covid-19 worker disability
Coronavirus (Covid-19) and disability: A year later, and millions of cases later, patients struggle for disability
Opinion: Employers may require workers to get COVID vaccine
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...
Opinion: Some school districts violate federal law on COVID
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...
Attorney Gary Phelan quoted in article “Schools report staffing short-ages” in The Norwalk Hour.
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...
Today’s Business: Working parents continue to manage the virtual office and the virtual classroom
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....
Attorney Peg Sheahan discusses Employment and Covid on News 12
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Gary Phelan interviewed in Fast Company Magazine article ” ‘I feel devastated’: COVID-19 long-haulers fight for understanding from employers.”
Gary Phelan interviewed in Fast Company Magazine article " ‘I feel devastated’: COVID-19 long-haulers fight for understanding from employers."
Gary Phelan Featured in New Haven Register “Today’s Business: Back to the office if immunocompromised”
“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...
Gary Phelan interviewed in Story News 12: Positive coronavirus case reported at Kendall Elementary days before school set to begin
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.
Older Teachers At Risk Of COVID Dread Return To Class | Connecticut Public Radio
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...
Market Matters: Older workers in the COVID-19 era
“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...
Gary Phelan was quoted in New Haven Biz
Older employees and the workplace
Reasonable accommodation in the workplace and COVID-19
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.”
Market Matters: Unemployment compensation rules changed amid pandemic
Some of the rules for collecting unemployment compensation have changed amid the coronavirus pandemic. For employers, a degree of caution is needed when dealing with workers who are afraid to come back to the job. Employees must understand that a simple,...