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COVID Exposing Small Businesses to ‘Staggering’ Number of Employment Lawsuits
A disproportionate share of employment lawsuits related to COVID-19 have been filed against small businesses, reversing the usual trend of the deepest pockets attracting the most litigation.
The Fisher Phillips law firm discovered when it updated its COVID-19 employment law litigation tracker that private employers with fewer than 500 employees were the defendants in 65% of COVID-19 lawsuits relating to employment, according to a blog posted Monday by attorney Melissa Camire and two colleagues.