DUE APRIL 10 FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE AND PAID SICK LEAVE – TALK TO THE DEPT. OF LABOR

The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) invites you to participate in a national online dialogue called "Providing Expanded Family and Medical Leave and Paid Sick Leave to Employees Affected by COVID-19 National Online Dialogue" (Idea Scale site). You're invited to share your ideas on how USDOL can help employers and employees understand their responsibilities and rights, respectively, under the expanded family and medical leave and paid sick leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). See table summarizing the Act’s provisions.

 

From The Arc and the Center for Public Representation:

The Families First Act extended emergency paid sick leave to many people, but the provisions do not explicitly extend to caregivers who need to take sick days to provide care to an adult family member with a disability or an older adult because that individual’s care worker is sick or their day program has closed. The legislative text is also slightly vague if “concerns related to COVID-19” include when someone has been instructed by a health care provider to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic because of a pre-existing condition or illness. These are issues that it would be helpful to address with the DOL during this dialog.