Monday, January 25, 2021 Joining other counties and cities in California, the City of Oakland voted to extend its Emergency Paid Sick Leave ordinance into 2021. The amended ordinance applies retroactively to December 31, 2020, and will remain in effect until the City’s Declaration of COVID-19 Emergency expires. The amended ordinance applies to all employers that have employees working in the City of Oakland, with the exception of certain smaller employers that are exempt from the ordinance’s requirements. No Additional Time Like the original ordinance, the amended ordinance provides full-time employees with 80 hours of Emergency Paid Sick leave (part-time employees receive a pro-rata amount). However, the amended ordinance states that employers are only required to provide Emergency Paid Sick leave on a one-time basis. In other words, if an employer already provided an employee with all of the Emergency Paid Sick leave available under the original ordinance, it does not have to provide that employee with additional leave under the amended ordinance. In addition, an employer may credit any Emergency Paid Sick Leave hours provided to an employee prior to January 1, 2021, to its obligation to provide leave under the amended ordinance.