The impact of COVID-19 is widespread, and businesses are facing significant challenges in complying with the various federal state and local employment laws, leave laws, and shelter-in-place orders in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.  As further explained below, in states or municipalities where shelter-in-place orders have been issued, businesses must make difficult operational decisions in determining whether to continue their regular onsite business, reduce onsite operations and enable employees to work remotely, or temporarily or permanently suspend all business operations.  Businesses must also make difficult workforce and employment decisions in determining whether to allow employees to work onsite or remotely, or if financially necessary, whether to reduce employees’ pay or hours, or whether to lay off or furlough (temporarily lay off) employees.