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Colorado |
Effective March 11, employers with 4 or more employees in certain industries (e.g., hospitality, food service, child care, retail grocers, education, community living facilities) must provide employees with four consecutive calendar days of paid leave if the employee is being tested for COVID-19 or has been advised by a health care provider to isolate due to COVID-19. |
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Duluth, MN |
The city expanded its existing paid sick leave law to allow covered employees to take leave to obtain COVID-19 testing or to isolate following close personal contact with a COVID-19 infected or symptomatic person. |
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Los Angeles, CA |
The City Council passed a new, temporary ordinance that applies to any employer with 500 or more employees. It allows employees employed between Feb. 3 through Mar. 4 to take up to 80 hours of paid leave to isolate due to COVID-19; to care for a family member who is isolating or whose school or place of care has closed; or because the employee is part of a vulnerable population (e.g., age 65+, has a weakened immune system, has heart/lung/kidney disease). |
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Massachusetts |
The state expanded its existing paid sick leave law to allow covered employees to take leave to care for a child whose school or place of care is closed by order of a state/local authority due to COVID-19 or because public health officials or a health care provider recommend that an employee or an employee's family member quarantine due to COVID-19. |
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Minneapolis, MN |
The city expanded its existing paid sick leave law to allow covered employees to take leave because a public official closed their workplace due to COVID-19 or to care for a family member due to closure of their school or place of care due to COVID-19. |
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New Jersey |
Effective March 25, the state permanently expanded its existing paid sick leave law to allow employees to take leave because of the closure of an employee's workplace or their child's school or place of care due to a Governordeclared state of emergency; a determination by a health care provider that the employee's or the employee's family member's presence in the community would jeopardize the health of others; or the employee or the employee's family member is subject to quarantine due to suspected exposure to a communicable disease. |
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New York |
Effective January 1, employers with a net income of $1 million or more in the previous tax year or with more than 10 employees must provide employees with 5-14 days of paid leave (depending on the size of the employer), unless the employer is subject to the FFCRA and providing paid leave under that law. Leave may be used by an employee who is subject to an isolation order issued by the State or a local governmental entity due to COVID-19. |
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Philadelphia, PA |
The city expanded its existing paid sick leave law to allow covered employees to take leave to obtain COVID-19 testing; isolate following travel to a Level 2 or 3 country or contact with a COVID-19 infected person; isolate at the recommendation of a health official due because they have a health condition that makes them high-risk; care for a family member whose school or place of care has closed due to COVID-19; shelter-in-place by order of a government official; or due to closure of one's work place due to order of a government official. |
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San Francisco, CA |
The city expanded its existing paid sick leave law, effective March 24, to allow covered employees to take leave to isolate at the order of a health care provider or public official; because the employee is in a vulnerable population (e.g., age 60+, has a weakened immune system, has heart/lung/kidney disease); the employee's work location ceases operation in response to public health recommendations; to care for a family member subject to quarantine or whose school, place of care or workplace ceases operations in response to a public health recommendation. |
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Seattle, WA |
The city expanded its existing paid sick leave law, effective March 18, to allow covered employees to take leave if a family member's school or place of care has closed. Formerly, employees could only take leave if a child's school or place of care was closed by order of a public health official. In addition, employees may take leave if their employer has 250 or more FTEs and has reduced operations or closed for any health- or safety-related reason (it does not have to be at the order of a public health official). |
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