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Coronavirus in the Workplace - December 1, 2020
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State had enacted a law requiring covered employers to provide paid sick leave and job-related protections to their employees subject to a COVID-19 mandatory or precautionary...more
As the year comes to an end, the City of Chicago is expanding the requirements on employers to provide paid leave. As of January 1, 2024, local employers will have additional legal obligations to provide time off for their...more
What You Need To Know: Effective August 7, 2023, Colorado employees will be able to use leave under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act for bereavement, to care for family members whose school or place of...more
On June 2, 2023, Colorado formally expanded its covered reasons for use of paid sick leave under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) when Governor Jared Polis signed into law Senate Bill 23-017 (SB...more
We have reached another milestone in Colorado's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado's public health emergency (PHE) sick leave, in place since January 1, 2021, officially ends today, June 8, 2023. Starting tomorrow,...more
Since January 1, 2021, Colorado’s Healthy Families & Workplaces Act (HFWA) has required employers to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental public health emergency leave (“PHE leave”) for conditions relating to COVID-19. That...more
The ending of the national COVID-19 public health emergency means something more for Colorado employers: it triggers the end of the extra Public Health Emergency Sick Leave you have been providing your employees since January...more
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza cases are surging across the United States while COVID-19 continues to spread. Faced with hospital beds filling up and experts warning that this could be one of the most severe...more
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of jurisdictions enacted sick leave laws specifically designed for absences due to COVID-19. Some states, however, enacted permanent changes to their leave laws that apply...more
Requiring employers to provide additional paid leave to employees during certain public health emergencies—including Spare the Air days—Proposition G is not tied to the COVID-19 pandemic or other specific health emergency,...more
In the midst of changing mask requirements and many people believing that the pandemic is now “over,” the City of Philadelphia has enacted a new COVID-19 sick leave law. On March 9, 2022, Mayor Kenney signed into law an...more
The Philadelphia City Council recently passed a third iteration of the Public Health Emergency Leave law that will guarantee up to forty hours of paid sick leave for Philadelphia employees to recover from COVID-19 or avoid...more
As of January 1, 2022, all Colorado employers – regardless of size – are subject to traditional paid sick leave requirements thanks to the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act. Additionally, public health emergency leave is...more
On July 29, 2021, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto signed a COVID-19 paid sick leave ordinance granting emergency paid sick leave for certain employees for COVID-19-related reasons. The ordinance will remain in effect for one...more
Under Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s Executive Order 21-15, the state of public health emergency due to COVID-19 will continue in Oregon until December 31, 2021, unless the governor extends the deadline or terminates the state...more
As District of Columbia businesses and area schools continue to reopen, employers should keep in mind their continuing obligations under the District’s COVID-19 leave laws, which the mayor recently extended through November...more
On July 22, 2021, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) issued a temporary rule that expands the reasons employees can use leave under Oregon’s paid sick and safe leave law during a public health emergency. ...more
On March 29, 2021, the City of Philadelphia enacted an ordinance providing for paid Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL). That leave requirement is now expired and employers no longer need to provide this leave....more
Like many cities across the country, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh issued emergency paid sick leave laws as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both of these leave laws were set to expire at the conclusion of Pennsylvania’s...more
In late 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued guidance confirming the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act’s (HFWA) provision entitling all employees to up to...more
On May 20, 2021, the Government of British Columbia passed Bill 13, which amended the Employment Standards Act to provide an employee with paid leave if he or she needs to stay home for reasons related to COVID-19. The bill...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 29, 2021, amendments to the Philadelphia Public Health Emergency Leave mandate went into effect. These amendments create a 2021 Public Health Emergency Leave (“PHEL”) mandate for employers with 50...more
On March 29, Philadelphia amended its Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) Ordinance requiring certain employers to immediately provide up to 80 hours of paid sick leave to qualifying employees in connection with specific...more
Philadelphia’s newest Public Health Emergency Leave law went into effect on March 29, 2021. Unlike the prior iteration of the law that sunset on December 31, 2020, this law will stay in effect “for the duration of the...more
Colorado recently provided guidance for employers about how the public health emergency supplement (PHE Supplement) works under Colorado’s new Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) for employees hired after the...more