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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Here s How Much Parental Leave You Get in Every U.S. State
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 3/2/21 at 6:30 PM EST
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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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) became effective in April 2020 and will expire on January 1, 2021. The FFCRA requires employers with 500 or fewer employee to provide up to eighty hours of paid sick leave to their employees for COVID-19 related events. It also extends limited protections to employees who otherwise would not have qualified for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). Although the FFCRA will soon expire, employees are still afforded protections under other state and federal laws.
Arizona’s Paid Sick Time Law
Employers are required to provide all part-time employees at least twenty-four hours and all full-time employees at least forty hours of of paid sick time annually. Paid sick time can be used for a myriad of COVID-19 related events, including when: