Employment Law Now IV-78- BREAKING: US DOL Issues New Regulations After Federal Court Invalidated Old Regulations
Nichole Atallah Comments on Small Business Benefits in CARES Act, FFCRA, and EFMLA
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides $1.9 trillion dollars in economic stimulus for individuals, certain companies, and municipalities. This blog focuses specifically on what the ARP means for employers....more
Just when you had your COVID-19 leave policies in place, Congress goes and passes new legislation: the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). Remember, as we outlined in a previous blog post, the Families First Coronavirus Response...more
On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) provided that employers may once again voluntarily extend Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) and Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA)...more
On March 10, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and President Biden signed it into law the next day. There are several provisions of the American Rescue Plan that relate to employment law. The focus of this...more
As most employers know, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) went into effect in April of 2020 and required employers with less than 500 employees to provide certain forms of paid COVID-related leave to...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) which became law on March 11, 2021, extends and expands an employer’s opportunities to receive payroll tax credits for employee paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”), signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021, once again gives covered employers the right to voluntarily decide to continue to provide qualified leave under the Emergency Paid...more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into law. Among other things, the ARPA extends tax credits available to employers with fewer than 500 employees who voluntarily choose to...more
Buried in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the massive COVID relief bill signed into law on March 11, 2021, is a provision allowing employers to continue to provide, voluntarily, Families First Coronavirus Response Act...more
Last Thursday, President Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion stimulus package called the American Rescue Plan. While the final version of the bill did not include the much-debated increase in the federal minimum wage, it...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which was signed into law on March 11, 2021, does not require employers to offer paid sick and family leave related to COVID-19. But ARPA continues to allow certain private...more
The American Rescue Plan (“ARP”), signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021, does not place any new paid leave requirements on private employers who were previously covered by the Families First Coronavirus...more
Governor Lamont has issued a new Executive Order that requires local and regional boards of education to continue providing eligible employees with certain paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. ...more
On April 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published temporary regulations under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) that are intended to clarify the scope and application of leaves under the FFCRA...more
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s (FFCRA) paid leave provisions have expired. The law, which was effective from April 1 through December 31, 2020, required businesses with fewer than 500 employees to provide...more
Since April 1, employers with fewer than 500 employees have been required to grant paid leave to their employees for a variety of COVID-related reasons. The two paid-leave provisions in the Families First Coronavirus...more
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires covered employers with less than 500 employees to provide eligible employees with up to twelve weeks of paid leave. As 2020 comes to an end, here is some...more
The school year is several months underway, and re-opening plans vary widely for schools across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools have transitioned to a distance, or remote, learning model, which require...more
As we previously reported, on August 3, 2020 the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “District Court”) struck down four provisions of the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) regulations interpreting...more
On August 3, 2020, a federal judge in New York City surprised many by striking down a few provisions of regulations published by the United States Department of Labor (DOL) in the early days of the pandemic. After President...more
On Friday, September 11, 2020, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a revised rule related to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), which was published and became effective today, September 16, 2020. The...more
On September 11, 2020, the United States Department of Labor issued revised regulations governing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The regulations implement the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and...more
On August 3, 2020, the Southern District of New York issued an opinion invalidating certain portions of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Temporary Rule on the paid leave requirements of the Families First Coronavirus...more
As we previously reported, on August 3, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (“the District Court”) struck down four provisions of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) “Final Rule” regarding the...more