{"id":222,"date":"2020-03-26T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=222"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T20:55:10","slug":"department-of-labor-issues-initial-guidance-regarding-the-families-first-coronavirus-response-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/26\/department-of-labor-issues-initial-guidance-regarding-the-families-first-coronavirus-response-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Labor Issues Initial Guidance Regarding the Families First Coronavirus Response Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued initial guidance on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which was signed into law on March 18, 2020. (For more information, see our prior\u00a0<i><a title=\"Families First Coronavirus Response Act Expands Paid FMLA and Paid Sick Leave to Help Workers Affected by COVID-19 Pandemic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/families_first_coronavirus_response_act_expands_paid_fmla_paid_sick_leave_help_workers_0320.html\">Alert<\/a><\/i>\u00a0on the requirements of FFCRA.) The WHD\u2019s guidance indicates that regulations are also forthcoming in April, but these regulations likely will not be issued before FFCRA takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/department_labor_issues_initial_guidance_regarding_ffcra_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued initial guidance on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which was signed into law on March 18, 2020. (For more information, see our prior\u00a0Alert\u00a0on the requirements of FFCRA.) The WHD\u2019s guidance indicates that regulations are also forthcoming in April, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/26\/department-of-labor-issues-initial-guidance-regarding-the-families-first-coronavirus-response-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Department of Labor Issues Initial Guidance Regarding the Families First Coronavirus Response Act&#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":[31,107,275,273,274,271,272],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-families-first-coronavirus-response-act","tag-ffcra","tag-guidance","tag-regulations","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-wage-and-hour-division"],"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\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}