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Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-037 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Questions and Answers (WHD; first posted Mar. 24, 2020, expanded through Dec. 31, 2020; live archived page)

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Questions and Answers

Wage and Hour Division · United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (federal agency) (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (federal agency)
Level
Federal
Authority
29 U.S.C. 204; FFCRA sections 3102(b), 5111
Issued
2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-04-01
End
2020-12-31 (mandate); page retained as archive (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Apr. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Schools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • FFCRA-covered employers and employees
Functions reached
  • WF
  • HR
  • OP payroll and documentation
Character
context
Collection
Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION

Operative words

1. What is the effective date of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which includes the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act? The FFCRA's paid leave provisions are effective on April 1, 2020, and apply to leave taken between April 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020.... You have fewer than 500 employees if, at the time your employee's leave is to be taken, you employ fewer than 500 full-time and part-time employees within the United States...

Enforcement

As in 29 C.F.R. 826.150-.153

Notes

Ninety-plus questions; the Department's administrative construction of the mandate (including telework, intermittent leave, school-closure and summer-camp questions).

Retrieval note

34-page render of the live archived page; guidance.