Employment & Labor

• The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA or Act) requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. 
  
• The Department of Labor’s (Department) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administers and enforces the new law’s paid leave requirements. These provisions will apply from the effective date through December 31, 2020.​

employee paid leave rights

employee rights expanded

employer paid leave requirements

Unemployment

• President Trump signed into law the provisions of the CARES Act on March 27, 2020.
• This law make a number of changes to the availability of unemployment insurance benefits including increasing availability to those who are self-employed or contract workers, those ineligible for state unemployment benefits and those who have exhausted benefits.

Unemployment insurance beneftis

unemployment insurance & resources