{"id":1081,"date":"2021-06-15T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:39:36","slug":"massachusetts-enacts-temporary-covid-19-emergency-paid-sick-leave-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/06\/15\/massachusetts-enacts-temporary-covid-19-emergency-paid-sick-leave-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Enacts Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 28, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/H3702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Act providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave<\/a>,\u201d which requires employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to employees who are unable to work for a qualifying reason related to COVID-19. The act establishes an Emergency Paid Sick Leave Fund from which qualifying employers can receive reimbursement for covered leave, subject to certain restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The act went into effect immediately and will remain in effect until September 30, 2021 (or until the exhaustion of the $75 million in program funds, whichever occurs first).<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/massachusetts_enacts_temporary_covid19_emergency_paid_sick_leave_law_0621.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 28, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law \u201cAn Act providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave,\u201d which requires employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to employees who are unable to work for a qualifying reason related to COVID-19. The act establishes an Emergency Paid Sick Leave Fund from which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/06\/15\/massachusetts-enacts-temporary-covid-19-emergency-paid-sick-leave-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massachusetts Enacts Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,193,1091],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-massachusetts","tag-paid-sick-leave"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}