Business Management Daily

MAY 4, 2020

The future of the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) is taking shape before our eyes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to keep sick workers out of the workplace. In passing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Congress authorized limited paid leave for the rest of 2020.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pandemic leave policies are a hot topic in 2021 after many of the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act’s (FFCRA) federal mandatory provisions expired at the end of 2020. The FFCRA – the first comprehensive federal paid leave law – set the floor for COVID-19 leave. Others are on altered schedules.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 10, 2020

Each of these factors impacts the employer’s options under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The FFCRA provides two types of paid leave to working parents, emergency paid sick leave (EPSL) and paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ).

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 24, 2020

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires paid leave for most employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine, testing, treatment, caring for family are all covered. Perhaps assuming cases would fall quickly, lawmakers set an end date of December 31, 2020, when the law sunsets.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 12, 2020

The Department of Labor has been busy updating employer advice on the interplay between the coronavirus pandemic and the paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the FMLA. Families First Act provisions. Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 5, 2020

FFCRA paid sick leave. She did, and the medical practice terminated her. She alleges that she was on protected FMLA leave when she was fired. She claims her employer should have paid her under the emergency sick leave terms of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

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McNees

MARCH 18, 2021

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”) was signed into law on March 11, 2021. The Act increases the amount an employee can exclude from the employee’s income and contribute to a dependent care assistance plan from $5,000 to $10,500 for the year 2021 only. Credit for Paid Sick Leave and Paid Family Medical Leave.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) set to expire, employers can’t just roll back their leave policies to 2019. Calendar options under the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) were devised long before COVID and the FFCRA. Using the Calendar Year for FMLA leave.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 19, 2021

For HR, one of the most difficult FMLA challenges is figuring out exactly how much FMLA leave workers can take. Beyond that, there’s the confusion over last year’s pandemic paid leave laws and the most recent extension. Beyond that, there’s the confusion over last year’s pandemic paid leave laws and the most recent extension.

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Insperity

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This year, many states have enacted changes in employee leave policies; ended or extended some temporary exemptions put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic; and taken steps to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. Coronavirus-related leave laws. Other state family and medical leave law changes.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 1, 2021

The Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) has been in the news quite a bit recently due to its close ties to ongoing COVID relief. Paid time off and Emergency FMLA leave. Mandated federal paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA) ended December 31, 2020.

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Abel HR

JANUARY 28, 2021

A new analysis finds that more than 1,000 workplace lawsuits in relation to Covid-19 were filed in 2020 alone, and experts suggest that the new year and continued economic stress associated with the global pandemic will bring even more.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s tempting to write off 2020 as the year we were all been forced to work in crisis mode. Department of Labor (DOL) enforcement action on the new temporary paid leave provisions. And the first piece of evidence cited in litigation over FFCRA leave or sexual orientation discrimination? Handbooks – or lack thereof.

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Insperity

JANUARY 9, 2020

Every new year brings new employment laws, and 2020 is no different. Changes at the state and local level: Paid leave policies. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires that qualified employers grant up to 12 weeks per year of unpaid leave to eligible employees who need to care for family members or themselves.

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BerniePortal

MARCH 20, 2020

On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed the Family First Coronavirus Response Act in response to the spread of COVID-19. The Act is an economic stimulus plan that affects coverage for COVID-19 testing and provides expanded federal family and medical leave and a new federal paid sick leave law.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 26, 2020

In mid-March, President Donald Trump signed into law two significant new federal paid leave laws. Between them, they represent the first national mandate for paid leave of any kind. The laws go into effect on April 2, 2020. The new leave entitlements create more – many more – covered employers.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 23, 2020

In addition, several jurisdictions with paid “sick or safe leave” laws allow workers to stay home for preventive purposes, which may include time spent self-quarantining if the worker has been advised by a physician to do that. How will the coronavirus relief package affect employee leave ? A: On March 18, 2020, the U.S.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 27, 2021

Employees may file COVID-related lawsuits under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ), or Workers Compensation (WC). OSHA issued a number of COVID-related workplace standards during 2020. The regulatory future is at best a mixed bag. FMLA and FFCRA.

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Business Management Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s (FFCRA) pending sunset creates challenges for employers and employees seeking FMLA leave for COVID related reasons. The FFCRA expanded Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) rights and funded paid leave for many pandemic-related reasons.

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