Labor Department Hustles to Issue Revised Virus Paid-Leave Rule

The U.S. Labor Department is quietly working around the clock to complete a revised emergency regulation on virus-related paid leave that will address a federal judge’s move to strike down key aspects of the original rule, according to three administration officials.

The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division and agency attorneys have been scrambling to release an updated regulation in accordance with a Manhattan judge’s decision Aug. 3 that the department illegally interpreted a virus aid law to exclude too many health-care workers from up to 12 weeks of paid family and sick leave. The sources, all of whom spoke on ...