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The Pennsylvania Rescue Plan is a targeted investment to help not only Lackawanna County citizens and businesses, but also people in towns and cities across Pennsylvania. A total of $13.7 billion is earmarked under the American Rescue Plan and Pennsylvania is slated to receive some of that funding for our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are four key aspects to the Pennsylvania Rescue Plan.
Here are some highlights:
• $250 million in hazard pay for front-line essential workers. They’ve more than earned it.
• $250 million to create a Paid Sick and Family Leave program – because every working family in Lackawanna County needs to be able to stay home when they are ill, even after the pandemic is over.
Seyfarth Synopsis:
Earlier this
month, New Mexico passed a statewide paid sick leave law, requiring
all private employers with one or more employees to provide
eligible employees with paid sick leave. The law becomes
effective July 1, 2022.
On April 7, 2021, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law the New Mexico Healthy
Workplaces Act (the Act ), House Bill 20,
1 which
requires covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid
sick leave and permits use of up to 64 hours of paid sick leave per
year. New Mexico is the sixteenth state to enact a statewide
paid sick leave or paid time off ( PTO ) mandate, joining
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Friday, April 23, 2021
The COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave statute was signed into law a month ago and, despite a FAQ issued by the California Labor Commissioner, employers were faced with uncertainty as to whether their employee’s leave request qualified under the statute. Fortunately, the Labor Commissioner has updated its FAQs to provide further clarity to employers.
Reasons for Leave
The first clarification pertains to leave for childcare purposes. The statute states that eligible employees may take supplemental paid sick leave if “caring for a child…whose school or place of care is closed or otherwise unavailable for reasons related to COVID-19 on the premises.” This wording led to confusion for employers since individuals were claiming the language required supplemental sick leave pay if their school or childcare facility had been closed for a prolonged period of time and not due to a sudden COVID-19 closure due to an issue on the premises.