{"id":4568,"date":"2020-05-29T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:58:57","slug":"employers-covered-by-the-ffcra-must-post-the-dols-employee-rights-poster-in-the-workplace-and-should-issue-a-copy-of-the-poster-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/employers-covered-by-the-ffcra-must-post-the-dols-employee-rights-poster-in-the-workplace-and-should-issue-a-copy-of-the-poster-to-employees.html","title":{"rendered":"Employers Covered by the FFCRA Must Post the DOL&#8217;s Employee Rights Poster in the Workplace and Should Issue a Copy of the Poster to Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the \u201cFFCRA\u201d) requiring employers with 500 or less employees to provide paid sick leave and paid family leave to qualified employees affected by the pandemic. These benefits are in addition to any other earned sick leave, vacation or other paid time off benefits offered by the employer. These additional benefits are temporary and are only available to employees through December 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Posting requirement: <\/strong>Now that employers are preparing for employees to return to the workplace, employers covered by the FFCRA must prominently display the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s poster entitled <strong>Employee Rights &#8211; Paid Sick Leave and Expanded Family and Medical Leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, <\/strong>a copy of which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/WHD\/posters\/FFCRA_Poster_WH1422_Non-Federal.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distribution of Employee Rights publication: <\/strong>Both the federal and state governments are encouraging employers to continue to permit employees to work remotely to reduce the headcount in the workplace and potential spread of the virus. Covered employers who plan to continue remote work arrangements should therefore distribute the DOL\u2019s Employee Rights publication to these employees, if not to all employees, to ensure employee awareness of leave rights under the FFCRA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/employers-covered-by-the-ffcra-must-post-the-dols-employee-rights-poster-in-the-workplace-and-should-issue-a-copy-of-the-poster-to-employees.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Employers Covered by the FFCRA Must Post the DOL&#8217;s Employee Rights Poster in the Workplace and Should Issue a Copy of the Poster to Employees\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the \u201cFFCRA\u201d) requiring employers with 500 or less employees to provide paid sick leave and paid family leave to qualified employees affected by the pandemic. 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