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ARTICLE · 29 JULY 2020

How Covid-19 Employment Litigation Is Taking Shape

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The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned a wave of employment litigation directly and indirectly based on related health risks and employers' response to the crisis.

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Matthew Gagnon
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James J. Swartz, Jr.
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Seyfarth Shaw attorneys examine patterns in cases already filed and outline steps to protect companies from lawsuits

The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned a wave of employment litigation directly and indirectly based on related health risks and employers' response to the crisis. This column provides our initial impressions from our data collection and analysis of those cases, and our thoughts on how companies can try to limit their potential liabilities.

TYPES OF LAWSUITS

In both state and federal courts, employees have advanced a wide variety of claims in response to Covid-19's effect on their workplace. Given the unprecedented nature and breadth of the pandemic and corresponding economic repercussions, the claims cover a rather broad range of topics, but those advanced so far tend to fall into one or more of several categories:

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