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An update to this post was published April 15. Yesterday afternoon, on April 1, 2020, to continue efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to make people in Florida safer, Florida’s Governor issued a Safer-at-Home Order (Executive Order 20-91). First, the Safer-at-Home Order mandates that senior citizens and individuals with a significant…

An update to this post was published April 22. This post was updated April 3. Updates are shown in red. On March 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published further guidance regarding the protections and relief offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response…

An update to this post was published April 22. Today, March 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL) published additional guidance addressing many pressing questions about the protections and relief offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The DOL provided its initial guidance late…

An update to this post was published on April 22. Late yesterday, March 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced its first round of published guidance about the protections and relief offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and clarified that the new law…

This post was updated March 26 based on subsequent DOL guidance. Updates are shown in red.  Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) to provide emergency family and medical leave broader than the current Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and paid sick leave to certain employees affected…