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Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu

October 5, 2009 21:50 by jllorens

(From TIME.com) Small businesses already hit hard by the recession may soon undergo another pummeling, this time by the 2009 H1N1 virus, the frightening new subtype of a strain that's been around for decades.

"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.

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.)

Why then have so few small to midsize companies executed a blueprint for action?

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