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On January 20, 2021 – nearly a year after the law’s effective date – the New York Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) issued new guidance (the “Guidance”) for employers regarding the scope of available sick leave for employees subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19 (“Quarantine Leave”). The Guidance creates new obligations for employers in New York and clarifies certain limitations on Quarantine Leave. It is also intended to supplement other guidancepreviously issued by the NYDOL, which remains in effect.
Quarantine Leave Overview
The statute authorizing Quarantine Leave, which was originally passed on March 18, 2020, requires New York employers to provide paid or unpaid job-protected leave to employees subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation issued by the state of New York, the Department of Health, a local board of health,
The New York DOL issued guidance for employers regarding the scope of available sick leave for employees subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19. The Guidance creates new obligations for employers and clarifies limitations on Quarantine Leave.
There was yet another violent police attack on a child in school last week. We are once again enraged.
[Content Warning: we describe the incident in this paragraph.] This time, a young Black girl at Liberty High School in Kissimmee, Florida was literally slammed to the ground by a sheriff’s deputy from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Department. Witnesses state he attacked her after a disagreement between students, in yet another wanton and horrifying example of why cops have NO PLACE in our schools.
As moms and parents we are once again horrified. And angry. And determined to make sure this does not happen again.