JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I won’t judge you if you don’t judge me. 🤐 Although I won’t provide drinks for everyone, I will be serving up knowledge – ba dum bum – today at noon eastern on Zoom for the final 2020 edition of…
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Last night, President Trump signed the COVID-19 stimulus package into law after all.
Image by ahmad triyawan from Pixabay I love my blog readers, but clients get the concierge treatment with daily blog posts and weekly email updates. Last night’s client email update included the news that President Trump had just signed the legislation about which I blogged here and here last week.…
Actually, the FFCRA may sunset for ALL employees on December 31, 2020 after all😳😲😱
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Remember yesterday, when I told you that the House had passed a bipartisan bill that would allow businesses to voluntarily provide Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) leave in Q1 of 2021? And then the Senate approved the same measure by a 92-8 vote. And…
Congress won’t make employers provide FFCRA leave in 2021. But, you can if you want (and get tax credits).
Image by ahmad triyawan from Pixabay The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. Perhaps, you’ve heard of it. The FFCRA will expire on December 31, 2020. But,…
Man pleads guilty to federal wire fraud charges after lying to his employer about having COVID-19
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Back in the Spring, I blogged here about an Atlanta man charged with wire fraud for misrepresenting to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Here are some more details from the press release: The defendant, who was employed by a Fortune 500…
Heads up! Check to see if your state and local quarantine rules have changed recently.
Image by thedarknut from Pixabay Last week, I wrote here about how the CDC had changed its guidance on COVID-19 close contact. As a result, lots of state and local guidance became misaligned with the federal change. But now they’re catching up. For example, Sara Satullo at LehighValleyLive.com reports here…
Just when you thought you had it all figured out, the CDC updated its ‘close contact’ guidance (again!)
Image by Kristin Baldeschwiler from Pixabay You and me, we’re a lot alike. I mean, I feel you. It’s tough enough to retain and immediately recall all of the various federal, state, and local guidance on COVID-19. Take the quarantine/isolation rules, for example. Between the various state rules for interstate…
Vlog and Blog COMBO! COVID-19 and Thanksgiving. Plus, a new telecommuting mandate in PA
Amy and Eric are talking COVID-19 and Thanksgiving on YouTube. Only in 2020… I had intended to keep the typing to a minimum today by sending you over to The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel, where I posted this video in which my colleague, Amy Epstein Gluck, and I tried to…
Can you get paid sick leave if your child’s school makes your child quarantine at home for two weeks?
H. Michael Miley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Let’s say that your child attends school either on a hybrid or full-time schedule. Your child comes into close contact with another person with COVID-19. The school instructs you to quarantine your child at home for 14 days while the class…
Paid sick leave for COVID-19 is flattening the curve…with fewer employment lawsuits too?
Image by Markéta Machová from Pixabay Back in March, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) into law. The FFCRA allows eligible employees to receive either paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. Recently, COVID-19 numbers have begun spiking…