EMPLOYMENT LAW

On April 7, 2020, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an emergency public order requiring businesses with 500 or more employees who perform any work in the City of Los Angeles or 2,000 or more employees within the United States to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave due to COVID-19.  The order is effective immediately, and remains in effect until two calendar weeks after the expiration of the COVID-19 local emergency period. The emergency order ...

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On March 18, 2020, the President signed HR 6201, the Families First  Coronavirus Response Act (Act or FFCRA) into law. Since then, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued, and reissued, guidance on multiple occasions, sometimes even changing previous advice. The latest DOL advice includes: A Fact Sheet for Employers and A Question and Answers document Based on this guidance, the following is what we know now. This information supersedes any prior releases that we have distributed on this topic. ...

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On March 27, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council passed Article 5-72HH requiring businesses with 500 or more employees nationally to provide up to 80 hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave to employees who work within the geographic boundaries of the City of Los Angeles.  The ordinance supplements the paid sick leave provisions of the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201), which applies to businesses with fewer than 500 employees. Full and Part-Time Employees Covered. ...

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On March 24, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued its initial guidance explaining the provisions of the Families First Response Coronavirus Act, which provided the new paid sick leave and emergency FMLA leave benefits briefly outlined in a prior release. The DOL guidance included a Fact Sheet for Employers https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employer-paid-leave and a Question and Answers document https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-questions. The DOL guidance provided the following updated information, among other areas: The DOL guidance states that the Act will ...

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Layoffs and furloughs: Many employers have been forced to lay off employees or implement temporary furloughs. Generally, layoffs confer no right of later reinstatement (absent commitments to the contrary), and furloughs are intended to be temporary, typically having defined start and end dates. Laid off employees must be paid their accrued vacation (or PTO) pay and given an EDD Notice to Employees form and COBRA notice. Furloughed employees may also be entitled to unemployment insurance benefits and also should be given ...

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The cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, and Santa Monica have each recently passed ordinances increasing the minimum wage effective July 1, 2016.  With the exception of Pasadena, all have further passed ordinances providing for paid sick leave beyond that required by California state law.  This article highlights some key provisions of these ordinances.

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