Employers' Guide to Navigating COVID-19 Emergency Leave Provisions

1st Wednesdays May Event:

Join us with Kim Carter from Klinedinst Law to discuss the material impacts & circumstances that businesses are facing amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

This presentation will: 

• Identify the requirements for an employee to qualify for emergency paid sick leave due to COVID-19
• Identify the requirements for an employee to qualify for emergency paid family leave due to COVID-19
• Identify the employer's obligation to provide emergency leave and how that interacts with the employee's rights to other leaves. 
• Identify the employer's obligation to provide other protected leaves to employees. 
• Identify when an employee may be entitled to file a workers' compensation claims as a result of COVID-19. 
• What are the government guidelines on implementing emergency leave due to COVID-19.
• How employers may navigating novel challenges that have arisen as result of employee's affected by COVID-19.
• What is the employer's obligation to keep the work place safe from harm in light of COVID-19

Takeaways: 

• Attendees will learn when to provide an employee emergency leave provisions under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act due to COVID-19. 
• Attendees will learn when other leave provisions should be provided to employees in lieu of or in conjunction with the emergency paid leave provided to the employees due to COVID-19. 
• Attendees will learn when an employer is obligated to provide employees with a workers' compensation claim form due to exposure of COVID-19 in the work place. 
• Attendees will learn the employers obligation to keep the work place safe, in light of the safety challenges that have arisen as a result of COVID-19.