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Ask the Attorney: Paid leave and telework

Business Management Daily

These questions were submitted by participants of a recent FMLA training program and answered by speaker and employment lawyer, Anniken Davenport. A: Employees generally cannot refuse to take telework when the absence is for school closures if their employer offers them the opportunity to do that telework around the child’s schedule.

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Health Care Benefits for Employees in Singapore

Global People Strategist

The importance of p roviding medical benefits and entitlements is stated in Singapore’s Employment Act. . Employers are required to provide entitlements and healthcare benefits to their employees. Sick Leave and Hospitalization Leave . The hospitalization leave is to be verified by a medical practitioner. .

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Health Care Benefits for Employees in Singapore

Global People Strategist

Providing medical benefits and entitlements is stated in Singapore’s Employment Act. . Employers are required to provide entitlements and healthcare benefits to their employees. Sick Leave and Hospitalization Leave . The hospitalization leave is to be verified by a medical practitioner. .

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Update: What you need to know about pandemic leave policies in 2021

Business Management Daily

The FFCRA – the first comprehensive federal paid leave law – set the floor for COVID-19 leave. Its sunset doesn’t mean, however, that employers are off the hook. Instead, they have to deal with a patchwork of leave laws – some specific to COVID and some not. However, employee entitlements to paid leave were not.

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Helping Employees During Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

Best Money Moves

Healthcare workers, delivery drivers and grocery store shelf stockers are being overworked while waiters, bartenders, musicians and those in the hospitality industry are dealing with shutdowns, layoffs, and unemployment. All of them are looking to their employers for help to get through this uncertain time. . Paid Leave.

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A closer look at the Families First Cornoavirus Response Act

Business Management Daily

Stay tuned: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is intended to be the first tranche of relief to help employees and employers deal with the work-related impacts of the coronavirus outbreak and the COVID-19 illness the virus causes. Emergency paid leave benefits. Paid sick days for personal and family care.

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DOL Moves Forward with FFCRA Revisions Due to New York Court’s Ruling

AssuredPartners

Department of Labor (DOL) has indeed decided to move forward with issuing revised regulations under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) after a New York federal district court struck down several of the previous provisions of the DOL’s final rule governing emergency family leave and paid sick leave last month.