Friday, April 10, 2020: WHD Corrections to FFCRA
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued a correction and a correcting amendment to its Temporary Rule we reported on last week.
What Changed?
The Temporary Rule contained an incorrect calculation of hours worked in a particular scenario (see Federal Register page 19329, the first column). WHD revised its prior calculation from “7.5 hours” to “6.5 hours.” In addition, WHD made eight other changes throughout Part 826 of its Rule implementing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). These additional corrections address text with incorrect cross-references, omitted titles, an omitted comma, and capitalized, for consistency, references to the phrase “Subject to a Quarantine or Isolation Order.”
You think WHD was in a hurry to get its Temporary Rule out the door to advise regulated employers about this new pandemic statute as it applied to the Fair Labor Standards Act?