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Labor/Employment

Feb. 23, 2010

Helping and Managing a Company's Haitian Workforce

Tanja Darrow and Jim Hart of Littler Mendelson explain how employers can prepare for and respond to emergency situations.

By Tanja Darrow and Jim Hart

As a result of the complete destruction of telephone service in the devastated areas, telephone communication with employees who were working in Haiti is virtually impossible. However, Haiti's Internet connectivity remains robust even after the earthquake, but only because its telecommunications infrastructure is not dependent on the country's lone undersea fiber optic cable link, which was knocked out during the quake. Moreover, the country's...

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