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"Right now the bulk of smaller businesses haven't prepared," says Howard A. Mavity, a labor lawyer who heads up the workplace safety and catastrophe management practice group at Fisher & Phillips, in Atlanta.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Overall, however, interest in how best to address a viral onslaught is intense, says Mavity, noting that inquiries from businesses of all sizes about his firm's free webinars on workplace-related H1N1 topics have increased "tenfold" since the summer. (See which businesses are bucking the recession.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Many small businesses have cut back their staff to the minimum, so they are without the extra workers needed to plan for contingencies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

But small businesses are also more vulnerable than large companies precisely because they work with a light staff - lose two workers to the flu and a shop's workforce can be cut in half for a week or more. And, says Mavity, even if a company had the foresight to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

At the other end of the spectrum are businesses that have planned for the flu but don't necessarily know how far they can go legally. "The question I'm hearing a lot is, Can employers send workers home involuntarily?" says Daniel P. O'Meara, a labor lawyer at Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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