{"id":4372,"date":"2020-03-31T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:02:03","slug":"dol-issues-guidance-on-emergency-sick-leave-and-emergency-fmla-leave-under-the-ffcra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/dol-issues-guidance-on-emergency-sick-leave-and-emergency-fmla-leave-under-the-ffcra.html","title":{"rendered":"DOL Issues Guidance on Emergency Sick Leave and Emergency FMLA Leave Under The FFCRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in our publication entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-employers-guide-to-federal-and-state-employee-leave-rights-and-income-protection-for-coronavirus-related-absences.html\"><i>Employer\u2019s Guide to Federal and State Employee Leave Rights and Income Protection for Coronavirus Related Absences<\/i><\/a>, we addressed the new Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (\u201cEmergency FMLA Leave\u201d) that employers must provide to employees as of April 1, 2020 under the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).\u00a0 As indicated in that publication, the US Department of Labor was expected to issue additional guidance of compliance with these new paid leave obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Since the passage of the FFCRA, the U.S. Department of Labor has issued several versions of a Questions and Answers publication that clarifies some of the issues that were not directly addressed in the FFCRA.\u00a0 Below is a summary of some of those clarifications.<\/p>\n<p><b>Documentation Employees Must Submit to Support a Paid FFCRA Leave Request.\u00a0 <\/b>The FFCRA mandates Emergency Paid Sick Leave if the employee is able to work\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/6-tips-for-every-business-dealing-with-remote-access-and-teleworking-employees.html\">telework<\/a> for one of 6 Covid-19 related absences (refer to the Guidance link above for the list of 6 qualifying reasons) and paid Emergency FMLA Leave if the employee is unable to work due to a child\u2019s school or daycare closure (or unavailability of daycare provide).\u00a0 The DOL makes it clear that employers must require employees to provide documentation to support an Emergency Paid Sick Leave or Emergency FMLA Leave, including:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/dol-issues-guidance-on-emergency-sick-leave-and-emergency-fmla-leave-under-the-ffcra.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading DOL Issues Guidance on Emergency Sick Leave and Emergency FMLA Leave Under The FFCRA\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in our publication entitled Employer\u2019s Guide to Federal and State Employee Leave Rights and Income Protection for Coronavirus Related Absences, we addressed the new Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (\u201cEmergency FMLA Leave\u201d) that employers must provide to employees as of April 1, 2020 under [&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-4372","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DOL Issues Guidance on Emergency Sick Leave and Emergency FMLA Leave Under The FFCRA &#8212; March 31, 2020 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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