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Many employers are providing or considering paid leave to get a vaccine to incentivize employees to become vaccinated. The expansion of paid leave to cover vaccinations would now seem to allow [...]

The EPSL bank of 80 hours and EFMLA bank of 12 weeks of leave resets on April 1, 2021. In other words, the initial leave provided by the FFCRA ends on March 31 and, starting on April 1, 2021, [...]

From April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021 employers with less than 500 employees can continue to allow for EPSL and EFMLA qualifying leave and receive reimbursement for the expenses for such [...]

Specifically, the FFCRA provided for 80 hours of emergency paid sick leave (EPSL) to be used by employees who were unable to work or telework due to specific COVID-related reasons and 12 weeks of [...]

Yes. Although providing leave under the ARPA expansion is purely voluntary, this is not akin to a benefit that employers can fully choose to provide only to certain employees. The law now imposes [...]

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) extends the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) tax credits available to employers with fewer than 500 employees to September 30, 2021. As has been [...]

The FFCRA’s mandatory leave requirements expired on December 31, 2020, but the stimulus package passed by Congress in late December of 2020 provided that employers could voluntarily allow [...]

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) that went into effect in April of 2020 required employers with less than 500 employees to provide certain forms of paid COVID-related leave to [...]

Although the mask mandate was ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the ruling was related to the governor exceeding emergency order authority for the state. However, local ordinances [...]

Yes, they are but it may be rare to find an instance where a citation was issued. Local ordinances are typically established for collective health and safety, not simply for generating citations.