Punching In: Paid Leave, Jobless Benefits Prescribed for Virus

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Chris Opfer: Businesses still have almost two weeks before the Labor Department starts enforcing new Covid-19 paid sick and family leave requirements, but worker advocates and plaintiffs’ lawyers aren’t necessarily planning to honor the same grace period. In the meantime, there’s still some uncertainty about the coronavirus relief law, which took effect April 1.

“The burning questions that my clients are grappling with deal with the effect of shelter-in-place orders on paid sick and leave laws,” Littler Mendelson attorney Jeff Nowak told ...