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Employment law changes to watch in 2021

Insperity

All employers must provide two weeks (up to 80 hours) of emergency paid sick leave for all employees who need time off to quarantine, who are sick with COVID-19 or who are caring for a sick child or one who’s out of school due to the pandemic. Colorado employers with 16 or more workers must offer paid sick leave.

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Employee handbook examples and sample policies

Business Management Daily

Ensuring that employees understand overtime, break, and timekeeping procedures is essential to the operation of any business. You are entitled to an unpaid one-hour lunch each workday unless you are leaving early and working under five hours. Bereavement leave, in contrast to the other forms of leave included, is not required by law.

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New employment laws to watch in 2020

Insperity

Updates to the so-called “white-collar exemption” to federal overtime rules have been in the works for a long time. 1, workers must earn at least $684 a week, or $35,568 per year, to be exempt from federal overtime rules. Changes at the state and local level: Paid leave policies. As of Jan.