HR Digest

MARCH 7, 2023

In the United States, taking a leave of absence can be complicated, especially when it comes to medical emergencies or other personal reasons. Unlike in some other countries where paid leave is the norm, U.S. Many European countries also offer paid parental leave and paid sick leave.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 10, 2020

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 ). Up to certain limits, employers may use the amount distributed to employees for paid leave as a refundable tax credit.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 22, 2020

Specifically, he commented that many states’ paid sick leave laws were enacted long before covid-19 became a household word and those laws still apply. Some of those laws, according to Garboden, already cover such covid-19 items as business and school closures, stay-at-home orders and exposure to communicable diseases.

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Flimp Communications

APRIL 3, 2020

The FFCRA carries the potential to transform the American sick-leave situation. Basically, it states that you get two weeks of paid sick leave if you are ill or quarantined or if you’re caring for a sick family member, and all at full pay. They allow for the kind of flexibility that makes leave easier.

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Empuls

MARCH 24, 2022

💼 Job hunting: If an employee is unsatisfied with the current job (for different reasons), they may seek other employment opportunities, missing work to attend job interviews. 📅 Inflexible schedules: Organizations that do not allow employees to work from home occasionally tend to see a high absenteeism rate.

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Abel HR

MAY 21, 2020

In a recent Forbes article, experts recommended that these businesses ramp up more slowly, with plans calling first for leaders to join together virtually to build out the strategy and develop guidelines and parameters for reopening, then allowing workers to further build out infrastructure and complete as many tasks as possible from afar.

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Business Management Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Employees should remain at home until the CDC recommended self-isolation standards have been met, or they’ve consulted with a healthcare provider about their condition. Legislation was signed into law in March 2020, allowing many employees to receive paid sick leave when affected by the coronavirus.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 1, 2021

Paid time off and Emergency FMLA leave. Mandated federal paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA) ended December 31, 2020. The FFCRA required employers to provide paid time off for many COVID-19-related reasons. This applies to the 10 days of Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL).

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Business Management Daily

JULY 9, 2021

Flexible work hours or telecommuting opportunities are also becoming a popular perk for employees. Post-covid, employees have increasingly expressed a desire to have continued flexibility to work from home in at least some capacity. Here’s a flexible work arrangement policy example for your employee handbook.

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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. Employers will have to coordinate both types of leave while also tracking the underlying reason for the absence. But there’s more.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 11, 2020

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. In response to the pandemic, government officials urged employers to allow employees to work from home. Women report rising early to get work done before children wake.

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