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After months of negotiations, on December 22, 2020, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bi-partisan COVID-19 relief package – the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA 2021”) – that includes approximately 900 billion dollars in various pandemic-related relief measures. President Trump signed the legislation on Sunday, December 27. While encompassing nearly 5600 pages of text, very little of the statute focuses on the closely-watched leave entitlements in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) created by Congress earlier this year. These leave entitlements, which became effective on April 1, 2020, are still scheduled to expire on Thursday, December 31, 2020.
As we discussed at length in previous Legal Alerts (available here), the FFCRA created two separate paid leave provisions related to COVID-19 – the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (“EPSLA”) and the Emergency Family and Medical Le