Tuesday, March 24, 2020: WHD Launched Families First Q&A Page
In response to the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act,” passed last week, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released a “Questions and Answers” webpage to cover common questions employers (and employees) may have right out of the gate.
The Act includes paid sick leave under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act as well as expanded family medical leave per the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act.
Most notably, NOT an April Fools joke, the regulations are effective April 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020 (Q1), and if your organization is in the private sector with more than 500 employees (defined in Q2), then the Acts do NOT apply (Q3).
The Q&A contains additional clarification on topics such as:
- Small business exemption
- Calculating part-time employee hours
- Overtime
- Calculating the rate of pay
- Overlap of the two regulations
- Employee rights
Please Note: This is a live document. On Tuesday, this list consisted of 14 questions, and at the time of this WIR publication, less than a week later, the Q&A is at 37 items.