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title: "How To Handle Ebola Fear In The Workplace: 4 Scenarios"
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# How To Handle Ebola Fear In The Workplace: 4 Scenarios

  October 31, 2014

Law360

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partners [Mark Konkel](/Our-People/Mark-A-Konkel) and [Rob Steiner](/Our-People/Robert-I-Steiner) authored the *Law360* article ​“How To Handle Ebola Fear In The Workplace: 4 Scenarios.” The expressions of employees’ unfounded fears of Ebola – for example, refusing to work with a colleague that has traveled in an area that, rightly or wrongly, may be associated in employees’ minds with Ebola – may implicate an employer’s obligations under a number of employment laws, including disability discrimination laws prohibiting differential treatment based on a perception of someone’s physical condition. The authors created several scenarios which employers could potentially be confronted with and provided tips on the steps employers should take if placed in such a situation.

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