How LA businesses can claim their wildfire insurance benefits
This attorney walks LA employers through what they need to get on the road to financial recovery.
Crisis Management
Amazon, Walmart and other employers pledge millions to support wildfire victims
Corporations are donating funds toward relief efforts in the wake of the southern California wildfires.
Starbucks workers displaced by LA Fires will get catastrophe pay
Starbucks said it will give catastrophe pay to workers affected by the fires in Los Angeles.
How to help employees impacted by the LA fires
Experts share the short-and long-term strategies employers should put in place to help employees impacted by the crisis.
Remote work makes workplace disaster plans essential
Organizations with outdated emergency plans may find themselves unable to locate, let alone help, their remote employees.
The dos and don’ts of mental health interventions
Managers need to be cautious when approaching employees about mental health issues.
Boosting employee productivity after an election roller coaster
With the presidential election now decided, managers can model empathy and boundary setting to get employees back on track and refocused at work.
3 small business leaders on what it takes to survive the pandemic economy
“If we need to cut some profit to be able to make sure that people can relax and take a deep breath and be there for their kids and get through this pandemic together, then that’s what we’re going to do," says Melissa Wirt, founder of Latched Mama.
How employers can ease the strain of COVID-19 isolation
Employee mental and cognitive health has deteriorated since the start of COVID-19, but managers can intervene by taking some important steps.
Benefits Think Experiences in crisis: How employee expectations will change and what leaders can do about it
Leading through this crisis requires empathy for what people are going through now and understanding how living through this crisis will shape people’s expectations around work and non-work lives.
Luke Mahoney
SAP
Managing compassionately during coronavirus
Social isolation of colleagues who may be grieving is a unique part of the crisis that is adding more mental strain on the workplace.
Employers can use positive psychology to connect with employees in times of crisis
Managers can project gratitude and resilience using positive psychology methods, which will help employees weather the challenges of coronavirus and other workplace adjustments.
Hurricane Florence aftermath: An employers’ checklist
Companies should divide up responsibility, develop a communications plan, contact their insurer and be supportive of employees.
Benefits Think Internal Revenue Code offers disaster relief funds outside gross incomes
Payments must reflect a reasonable estimate of the employee’s losses and expenses attributable to disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Kevin G. Bender
McGuireWoods LLP
How Florida employee benefit firms are preparing for Hurricane Irma
Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.
How Florida employee benefit firms prepared for Hurricane Irma
Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.
IRS offers tax help for Hurricane Harvey victims
The agency will allow some Texas residents to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some tax payments as late as Jan. 31.
