Pittsburgh's new legislation amends the PSDA by permitting employees to take sick time under the PSDA before it is accrued if the reason for use arises directly from COVID-19. Employers are required to provide paid COVID sick time in addition to other forms of paid leave.
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The United States falls behind when it comes to parental and family leave laws. It is the only industrialized nation in the world among 42 countries analyzed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that does not have any federally mandated paid parental leave policy. Several countries do offer extensive parental leave, such as Sweden, that offers robust parental leave with parents sharing 480 days of paid parental leave per child, at 80 percent of the stay-at-home parent s salary.
The COVID-19 pandemic has further demonstrated the need for the United States to update its parental leave policies on both the federal and state levels. While subpar laws surrounding family and parental leave makes things difficult for parents across the country, many state legislatures have introduced bills that will allow for some type of paid parental leave in
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On December 8, 2020, Pittsburgh’s City Council unanimously passed a Temporary COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, which Mayor Peduto signed on December 9, 2020. The Ordinance, which took effect immediately, requires employers with 50 or more total employees to provide up to 80 hours of paid “COVID-19 Sick Time”
in addition to any leave employers provide to their employees, with very limited exceptions. The Ordinance will remain in effect until the public health emergency officially ends.
Employees Covered by the Ordinance
Covered employers must provide COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave to any employees who:
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On December 9, 2020, Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto signed a new ordinance granting COVID-19 Sick Time to certain employees working within the City.
Interaction with Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act
This ordinance supplements the Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act (“PSDA”), which took effect earlier this year in March. The ordinance also amends the PSDA by expressly permitting employees to take sick time under the PSDA before it is accrued, if the reason for use arises directly from COVID-19.
Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Time
Pittsburgh employers with more than 50 employees working in the City must provide paid COVID-19 Sick Time to their employees for COVID-19-related reasons. The law applies to employees who are (a) working for that employer within Pittsburgh after the effective date of this ordinance, (b) normally work for that employer within the City of Pittsburgh but are currently teleworking from any other lo