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New FAQs from the DOL shed more light on paid leave

Business Management Daily

And, according to the DOL’s FAQs , the circumstances under which employees qualify for emergency paid sick leave or paid FMLA leave are more limited than meets the eye. Leave doesn’t apply if you: Close (before or after April 1) because business has dried up. Remain open but reduce employees’ hours.

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Regular rate calculation gets a makeover

Business Management Daily

Nonexempt employees who work longer than 40 hours in a week must be paid overtime at 1.5 15, 2020, allow you to offer more perks to nonexempt employees without having to include those perks in their regular rate calculation when you’re figuring their overtime rate. Cash payments for unused paid leave, including paid sick leave.

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Employment law changes to watch in 2021

Insperity

All employers must provide two weeks (up to 80 hours) of emergency paid sick leave for all employees who need time off to quarantine, who are sick with COVID-19 or who are caring for a sick child or one who’s out of school due to the pandemic. Colorado employers with 16 or more workers must offer paid sick leave.

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Employee handbook examples and sample policies

Business Management Daily

Ensuring that employees understand overtime, break, and timekeeping procedures is essential to the operation of any business. You are entitled to an unpaid one-hour lunch each workday unless you are leaving early and working under five hours. Bereavement leave, in contrast to the other forms of leave included, is not required by law.

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New employment laws to watch in 2020

Insperity

Updates to the so-called “white-collar exemption” to federal overtime rules have been in the works for a long time. 1, workers must earn at least $684 a week, or $35,568 per year, to be exempt from federal overtime rules. Changes at the state and local level: Paid leave policies. As of Jan.