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Potter County issues COVID-19 leave extension The Families First Coronavirus Response Act made employee paid sick and family leave mandatory, but in the wake of the act's expiration on Dec. 31, the paid leave is now optional. To that end, the Potter County Commissioners' Court has voted to extend the 80 hours of COVID-19 leave beyond Dec. 31, until further action of the Court. "We do have some employees that are in the midst of their 80 hours of COVID leave that are currently out," Potter County Human Resources Director Kay Holland said during the court's virtual regular session. "We have a handful that are currently out and are in the middle of using that COVID leave. We also have some employees who, thankfully, up to this point, have not had to utilize the 80 hours of COVID leave. I feel like it would behoove us to extend that 80 hours to those employees who have not yet had to utilize that time. Some employees have already had the benefit of the 80 hours or part of the 80 hours. I would just like to see the same benefit extended to all employees, as long as we're in the middle of this outbreak."