New Federal Law Entitles Employees to Paid Sick Leave and Paid Childcare-Related Leave Due to COVID-19
On Wednesday, March 18, Congress passed and the President signed off on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which will be going into effect on April 1, 2020. This new law, which curiously applies only to private employers with less than 500 employees as well as some government employers, contains two significant employment-related components: (1) it provides all employees of such employers up to 10 days of paid sick leave for