Heat Check: Employee Temperature Screenings are Leading To COVID-19 Wage and Hour Lawsuits
By EsqSocial Corporation 15/04/21
Standing in line waiting to have your temperature taken – at some point over the last year, most of us have had this experience. At youth sports games, at the gym, at daycare, and of course, at your place of employment. A year ago, at the outset of the pandemic, we warned employers that measuring worker temperatures without paying for the time spent performing this task might lead to wage and hour claims. And it appears that our warning was prophetic. With the boom of COVID-19 workplace lawsuits...
By: Fisher Phillips