Last week, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation providing for COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave for Massachusetts employees. Governor Baker vetoed an earlier version.
[co-author: Joyce Dos Santos]
On May 28, Gov. Charlie Baker (R) signed Bill H.3702 into law, legislation that provides employees with emergency paid sick leave, capped at 40 hours a week or $850, for certain reasons related to COVID-19. This legislation similarly creates a $75 million COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave Fund to reimburse eligible employers for providing employees with emergency sick leave. Employees are entitled to benefits starting this Monday, June 7, and continuing through September 30, or until the state’s MA EPSL fund is exhausted, whichever occurs first.
Employees are entitled to emergency paid sick leave
in addition to all other job protected leave that the employer is required to provide under the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law, the employer’s existing policies or programs, collective bargaining agreements, or federal law.
Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation providing for COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave for Massachusetts employees after vetoing earlier version of the bill. effective on Monday, June 7, 2021 employees are eligible for COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave until September 30, 2021
On May 28, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation providing every full-time employee up to 40 hours (pro-rated for part-time employees) of job-protected,.
Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 1, 2021,
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a new
law
that, among other issues, addresses the solvency
of the Commonwealth s unemployment compensation fund by
imposing an excise on wages and permitting the Commonwealth to
issue bonds to fund unemployment. The law also includes tax relief
provisions for employers and employees, including gross income
exclusions for employers who received certain COVID-19 relief
benefits and a tax deduction for some individuals who received
unemployment compensation in 2020 or 2021. While the unemployment
and tax relief provisions of the bill are now law, the Governor
exercised his line-item veto power to send the section of the bill