This article is about how your business may be affected by the FFCRA (Families First Coronavirus Response Act). This is not the $2 trillion bailout, but a law signed on March 18, 2020. The law requires paying anyone who cannot work (or telework) due to COVID-19 based on being quarantined due to illness or to government-imposed isolation (like the one Houston and Dallas are now in).

Business owners watch the news while shouldering many responsibilities. Sports cancelled. Schools closed. Gyms and bars shut. Restaurants scaled down to take-out and delivery. Then, along with the run on goods, burglaries started. Now business owners have either shut or reduced hours and staff. As you ask yourself, “What next?” here are a few legal tips.