The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued revised regulations for paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions in Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The revisions seek to clarify when leave is available and when employees must get approval to take leave under the FFCRA. These revisions are in response to a court ruling from the Southern District of New York that invalidated parts of the Act. The revisions went into effect on September 16, 2020, after being published in the Federal Register.
The FFCRA was signed into law on March 18, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Act requires local and state governments and employers with less than 500 employees to provide employees with emergency paid sick leave and emergency family and medical leave in addition to what they currently offer employees. The FFCRA went into effect on April 1. For more information on the FFRCA, read Technical Updates vol. 24, numbers 22, 23, and 24.
According to DOL Issues Revised FFCRA Leave Rules by Lisa Nagele-Piazza J.D., SHRM-SCP, the new revisions to the FFCRA encompass the following areas:
The Healthy Families and Workplace Act (HFWA), signed into law by Governor Polis, extends FFCRA coverage to all employees in Colorado through December 31, 2020. Section 8-13.3-406(2) states,
On and after the effective date of this section through December 31, 2020, each employer in the state, regardless of size, shall provide paid sick leave in the amount and for the purposes provided in the federal “Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act” in the “Families First Corona Virus Response Act”, pub. L. 116-127, to each employee who is not covered under the “Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act”.
Counties should review their FFCRA and HFWA polices to ensure that they are in compliance with the new rulings and educate employees about their rights and responsibilities when taking leave under the Act. For more information, contact CTSI at 303 861 0507.
A PDF of this Technical Update is available here.
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