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Leave In The Time Of Covid: Examining Paid Sick Leave Laws, Jennifer B. Shinall
Leave In The Time Of Covid: Examining Paid Sick Leave Laws, Jennifer B. Shinall
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress (as well as several states') passed emergency paid sick leave legislation? The federal legislation, known as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), guaranteed most workers the right to eighty hours of sick leave at full pay while the employee was in COVID-19-related quarantine, plus an additional eighty hours of sick leave at two-thirds pay to care for another person in quarantine.' Congress felt compelled to pass such legislation because the United States infamously lags behind all other developed countries in guaranteeing paid health-related leave for workers. Of the top twenty-two highest …