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All employers in Massachusetts will soon be required to provide up to 40 hours of job-protected, paid leave for various COVID-19-related reasons. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House Bill 3702 into law on May 28, 2021. The MA Emergency Paid Sick Leave (MA EPSL) will take effect on June 7, 2021 and
will extend through September 30, 2021 or until the $75 million fund established to reimburse employers for this new paid leave is exhausted, whichever occurs first.
Significantly, MA EPSL is generally
in addition to all other job protected time off (paid or unpaid) that employers are required to provide under the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law, the employer’s existing policies, or federal law to the extent permitted by such federal law. However, an employer that has already adopted a separate COVID-19 sick time policy that may be used for the same reasons and under the same conditions as MA EPSL is
All employers in Massachusetts will soon be required to provide up to 40 hours of job-protected, paid leave for various COVID-19-related reasons through the MA Emergency Paid Sick Leave law.
[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.
Seyfarth Synopsis:
On May 28, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law legislation that grants employees emergency paid sick leave for COVID-related illness, quarantine and vaccinations (“COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave”). The law became effective on May 28, 2021 and will remain in place through September 30, 2021, or the exhaustion of $75 million in program funds as determined by the Commonwealth, whichever is earlier. The law also amends the Act Financing a Program for Improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and Providing Relief to Employers and Workers in the Commonwealth to provide relief to employers facing the sharp rise in employer contributions to the unemployment fund by spreading out costs over a 20-year period.
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,.