Managing your organization through change and disruption
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Crisis Management Update: Managing your business through change and disruption
This week's guide to Crisis Management
 
This week's email features a look at Succession plan is vital for family businesses; NLRB guidance on COVID-19 policies for unionized employers; Ethical obligations in a data breach;  Restaurant owners score win in battle with insurer over COVID; Managing risk during a pandemic.
 
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Developing a succession plan is vital for family businesses
A recent family business survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Family Business Alliance indicates that only 15% of the family businesses have developed and documented anything appearing to be a succession plan. This is troubling because succession of ownership and leadership is a critical issue for the long-term success of a business.
 
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NLRB’s guidance on COVID-19 policies for unionized employers
For businesses with unionized employees, decisive action involving working conditions can be a challenge. Balancing the ability to comply with government mandates and adapt to a changing public health environment with the duty to bargain creates an additional layer of complexity in the unionized workplace .
 
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Managing risk during a pandemic: answers to employers’ questions
Here are a few of the top civil rights and wage and hour questions we’re fielding from construction employers:. 
 
  • Sick time
  • Retaliation
  • Face coverings, physical distancing
  • Travel time
  • Temperature checks
 
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N.C. restaurant owners score win in battle with insurer over COVID
An insurance company must honor its business interruption coverage for 16 North Carolina restaurants that closed on the orders of the state due to COVID-19 because the restaurants suffered actual “physical loss,” a Durham County Superior Court judge has ruled.
 
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Colorado Bar on ethical obligations in a data breach
Lawyers need to understand both the technology their firms have implemented and what to do in the event of an unexpected breach of confidential client data .
 
 

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