{"id":4323,"date":"2020-03-18T11:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:03:04","slug":"is-relief-on-the-way-the-house-passes-emergent-coronavirus-bill-that-mandates-paid-sick-leave-bill-now-awaits-senate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/is-relief-on-the-way-the-house-passes-emergent-coronavirus-bill-that-mandates-paid-sick-leave-bill-now-awaits-senate-action.html","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes Families First Coronavirus Response Act &#8211; Mandates Paid Sick Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the country reels from the coronavirus pandemic, the economic impact on businesses and employees has become painfully evident. \u00a0 Whether due to personal or family illness with the virus, self-isolation, school or business closures, or a downturn in business, employees are expected to be facing extended absences from the workplace. \u00a0 Many employees, especially hourly workers, may not have available paid time off or the economic cushion to weather the loss of income during the absence. Employers may not have the financial wherewithal to pay employees during these absences. In anticipation of these and other\u00a0 dire economic consequences brought on by the virus, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Emergency Paid Leave Act with the support of the President. On March 16, 2020 the House substantially revised the bill to significantly narrow the relief available to employees under the original version.\u00a0 The Senate passed the bill two days later and it is now headed to the President for his signature.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/116\/bills\/hr6201\/BILLS-116hr6201enr.pdf\">Families First Coronavirus Response Act<\/a> will provide economic relief to employees affected by coronavirus-related absences.<\/p>\n<p>The Act will apply to employers with 500 or less employees. \u00a0 Larger employers are not covered. Administration and Senate leaders have commented that these larger employers typically provide sick leave benefits to their employees,\u00a0 but many may not provide for two weeks of leave. If not, these employees may be unprotected. Employers with less than 50 employees can apply for an exemption through the Department of Labor if it would \u201cjeopardize the viability of the business\u201d, a vague standard that has yet to be defined.<\/p>\n<p>We have outlined below key provisions of the Act that we hope will assist employers in making difficult staffing decisions going forward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/is-relief-on-the-way-the-house-passes-emergent-coronavirus-bill-that-mandates-paid-sick-leave-bill-now-awaits-senate-action.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Congress Passes Families First Coronavirus Response Act &#8211; Mandates Paid Sick Leave\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country reels from the coronavirus pandemic, the economic impact on businesses and employees has become painfully evident. \u00a0 Whether due to personal or family illness with the virus, self-isolation, school or business closures, or a downturn in business, employees are expected to be facing extended absences from the workplace. \u00a0 Many employees, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congress Passes Families First Coronavirus Response Act - Mandates Paid Sick Leave &#8212; March 18, 2020 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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