15.Feb.2010 Hotel Labor & Employment Law: Don’t Let Employees Get Hurt As You Dig Out

National labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips offers the following tips for businesses, as they begin to deal with the aftermath of the winter storms:

In the midst of finding childcare for children unexpectedly home from school, coping with business disruption, power outages, and dangerous streets, we often forget that winter storms, like hurricanes, pose special workplace hazards especially when employers begin to clean up and restore business. Many fatalities, injuries, and OSHA citations occur as employees perform non-routine tasks after the storm eases.

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