{"id":63,"date":"2020-02-12T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=63"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:13:32","slug":"my-boss-wants-me-to-travel-during-the-coronavirus-do-i-have-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/02\/12\/my-boss-wants-me-to-travel-during-the-coronavirus-do-i-have-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"My Boss Wants Me to Travel During the Coronavirus. Do I Have to Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadly coronavirus becomes a global pandemic, companies like Apple and Starbucks have stopped operating in China, and others, like Sony and Amazon, have pulled out of global trade shows like this month&#8217;s World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The only opportunity for an employee who contracts coronavirus to seek damages outside of workers&#8217; compensation is if their company has behaved recklessly\u2014such as by ordering them to Wuhan, the epi-center of the virus. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanasegal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Segal<\/a>, a partner at the law firm Duane Morris, the fact the U.S. State Department has issued a Level 4 advisory for China\u2014a flat-out &#8220;do not travel&#8221; warning\u2014means firms could face special liability in the event their employees contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s the legal answer but, from a practical management point of view, you don\u2019t want to force people who are scared into doing something,&#8221; says Neuberger.<\/p>\n<p>Segal echoed this sentiment, saying &#8220;it&#8217;s a horrible message to the workforce&#8221; to order employees to travel when they are fearful of a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/02\/12\/coronavirus-travel-work-trip-do-i-have-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">please visit the <i>Fortune <\/i>website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadly coronavirus becomes a global pandemic, companies like Apple and Starbucks have stopped operating in China, and others, like Sony and Amazon, have pulled out of global trade shows like this month&#8217;s World Mobile Congress in Barcelona. [&#8230;] The only opportunity for an employee who contracts coronavirus to seek damages outside of workers&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/02\/12\/my-boss-wants-me-to-travel-during-the-coronavirus-do-i-have-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Boss Wants Me to Travel During the Coronavirus. Do I Have to Go?&#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":[20,31,531,14],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employer","tag-employment-law","tag-liability","tag-travel"],"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\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}