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New York's 2020 state law requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to workers under a COVID quarantine order will end ...
Employees who are unable to work due to COVID-19 are still entitled to sick leave under other state-mandated laws.
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown New York, the state is now ending its requirement for employers to provide ...
New York's COVID-19 Paid Emergency Leave ("PEL") will expire on July 31, 2024, marking a significant shift in ...
If New York residents get sick with COVID-19, they will no longer be able to use the state's specific quarantine paid leave starting next month.
Employers should be aware that the end of COVID-19 leave does not affect the separate requirement that employers comply with the New York Health and Essential Rights (HERO) Act, which requires ...
Paid sick leave for New Yorkers with COVID may come to an end later this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul this year proposed to sunset the existing COVID-19 Sick Leave Law, which went into effect in 2020 ...
Guidance issued by New York state clarifies employers’ questions on a recent law that provides sick leave benefits to some employees affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Specifically, New York State’s coronavirus-focused paid sick leave law (“NY COVID-PSL”) provides varying amounts of paid leave (either 5 or 14 days depending on the employer’s size), ...
The New York State Department of Labor (DOL) has updated its guidance on COVID-19 paid sick leave. According to the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce, the update should provide some relief for ...
"Employees will forgo their paid sick leave benefits from New York's COVID-19 paid sick leave law if they engage in non-essential travel to any state that has a positive test rate higher than 10 ...
Starting next month, a positive COVID test won't guarantee extra sick leave. COVID paid sick leave legislation is coming to ...