{"id":416,"date":"2020-04-14T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=416"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:28:06","slug":"reopening-the-economy-business-resiliency-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/14\/reopening-the-economy-business-resiliency-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Reopening the Economy, Business Resiliency and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(This is the fifth in a series on the impacts of the coronavirus on employment and the workplace. Read\u00a0<a title=\"Read part one\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/workplace_time_coronavirus_legal_guidelines_navigating_upheaval_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part one<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Read part two\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/remote_work_best_practices_coronavirus_workplace_series_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part two<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Read part three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/unprecedented_employer_subsidies_week_avoid_layoffs_coronavirus_workplace_series_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part three<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"part four\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/countering_layoffs_lessons_first_week_cares_act_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part four<\/a>.<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, President Trump announced a task force on reopening the national economy. Also on Friday, several Governors, including California Governor Newsom, announced they were developing plans on state reopening processes and strategies. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Good. Though the dates for reopening our economy will depend on the COVID 19 case data we\u2019ll\u00a0be getting over the next few weeks, now is the time to plan for reopening. COVID 19 has no economic precedent. But we are not without guidance. We can draw on the ways that essential businesses that have continued operations over the past six weeks have adapted and innovated. Though little noted in the media, within a short time, businesses have moved rapidly to develop new protocols and even forms of collaboration to meet the changed COVID 19 environment.<\/p>\n<p>To help us understand the adaptions and lessons going forward, let us bring in\u00a0<a title=\"Paul P. Josephson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/paulpjosephson.html\">Paul P. Josephson<\/a>, a partner at Duane Morris LLP, and former Chief Counsel to the Governor of New Jersey. Josephson has been advising businesses, as they take aggressive measures for safety of workers and customers, while continuing operations.<\/p>\n<p>To read a longer excerpt from this article by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/michaelsbernick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bernick<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/articles\/reopening_economy_business_resiliency_change_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>. To read the full text of this article, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelbernick\/2020\/04\/13\/reopening-the-economy-business-resiliency-and-change-the-coronavirus-workplace-series\/#1825e59050fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Forbes<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is the fifth in a series on the impacts of the coronavirus on employment and the workplace. Read\u00a0part one,\u00a0part two,\u00a0part three\u00a0and\u00a0part four.) On Friday, President Trump announced a task force on reopening the national economy. Also on Friday, several Governors, including California Governor Newsom, announced they were developing plans on state reopening processes and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/14\/reopening-the-economy-business-resiliency-and-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reopening the Economy, Business Resiliency and Change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[534,31,969],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-economy","tag-employment-law","tag-reopening-business"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}