Butzel Long hosts free webinar on March 26 focused on Executive Orders on COVID-19: What Health Care Providers Need to Know

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long is hosting a complimentary webinar from 9-10:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2020 on the Executive Orders on the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential effect on the business operations of health care providers.  To register, visit www.butzel.com/events.

Attorneys from Butzel Long’s health care, employment, business law, and employee benefits groups will present a summary of key issues, followed by an interactive question-and-answer session to raise specific concerns.  Topics will include:

• Governor Whitmer’s shelter-in-place executive order, and the executive order on non-emergency medical procedures;
• Responsibilities to maintain health insurance or any other benefits if operations are closed;
• Staff hours, reduced schedules, and filing for unemployment;
• Sick time policies, effect on PTO plans, FMLA;
• Tax credits to businesses;
• Small business loans and other funding supports;
• Coordination of state and federal orders and legislation;
• Donations/loans of disposable and capital equipment; and,
• Announcements of various regulatory relief.

Topics are likely to change based on the most recent developments, but webinar participants will have an up-to-date look at key issues affecting their businesses, employees, and patients.