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When traumatic disruptive things happen, like the current COVID-19 pandemic, they create many obvious and foreseeable impacts; but also many not so obvious or foreseeable impacts; and, when these events occur, they not only cause financial issues but also cause a host of related legal issues.

Tom recently took part as guest contributor in the Building PA Podcast produced by the Keystone Contractors Association (KCA).

Approximately one year ago the Pennsylvania State Legislature passed a law entitled Construction Industry Employee Verification Act.  This is a reminder that the statute is now in effect as of October 7, 2020. 

The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, in announcing the Department’s new overtime rule, projected that up to 251,000 or more people employed in Pennsylvania could soon see overtime compensation in their paychecks where there was none before.

In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, the Court has given the green light to employees to file certain retaliation claims with a state court under the Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law without first filing a charge or complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

While contractors move quickly to sanitize their workplaces, seeking to protect their employees, customers, and guests from the Coronavirus, diligently following directives from the CDC, no amount of sanitizing can insulate contracting businesses from potential negative outcomes and costly unprecedented and unpredictable impacts caused by the virus.