{"id":519,"date":"2020-04-28T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:10:27","slug":"san-franciscos-covid-19-paid-sick-leave-ordinance-takes-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/28\/san-franciscos-covid-19-paid-sick-leave-ordinance-takes-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Takes Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our April 9, 2020,\u00a0<a title=\"San Francisco Enacts Emergency Ordinance: Public Health Emergency Leave\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/san_francisco_enacts_emergency_ordinance_public_health_emergency_leave_0420.html\"><i>Alert<\/i><\/a>, we analyzed the San Francisco Public Health Emergency Leave ordinance\u00a0(PHELO), approved unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 7, which requires private employers with 500 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave consistent with the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, 2020, Mayor Breed signed an amended version of the PHELO. In addition, the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) published a workplace\u00a0<a title=\"Public Health Emergency Leave poster\" href=\"https:\/\/sfgov.org\/olse\/sites\/default\/files\/PHEL%20Poster%204.17.2020%20all%20languages_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poster<\/a>, detailed guidance for employers in the form of\u00a0<a title=\"PHELO Implementation Guidance\" href=\"https:\/\/sfgov.org\/olse\/sites\/default\/files\/PHEL%20FAQ%20-%20updated%2004.24.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAQs<\/a>\u00a0(updated April 24, 2020) and a\u00a0<a title=\"Employee Interview Form\" href=\"https:\/\/sfgov.org\/olse\/sites\/default\/files\/PHEL%20claim%20form%204-17-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint form<\/a>\u00a0to be used by employees to address violations of the PHELO. The PHELO became effective on April 17, 2020, and will expire on June 17, 2020, or upon the termination of the COVID-19 public health emergency, 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\/san_franciscos_covid19_paid_sick_leave_ordinance_takes_effect_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our April 9, 2020,\u00a0Alert, we analyzed the San Francisco Public Health Emergency Leave ordinance\u00a0(PHELO), approved unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 7, which requires private employers with 500 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave consistent with the federal Families First Coronavirus Response &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/28\/san-franciscos-covid-19-paid-sick-leave-ordinance-takes-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Takes Effect&#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":[31,107,714,508,715,172],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-families-first-coronavirus-response-act","tag-phelo","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-public-health-emergency-leave-ordinance","tag-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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}