As developments continue to unfold in response to the spread of COVID-19, we know many small businesses have questions about implications in the workplace and funding options to help bolster their businesses during this difficult time. On this page, we are compiling relevant tips and resources such as unemployment, paid family leave, paid sick leave, healthcare and more.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finally cleared legal questions tied to how employers can increase the country’s vaccination rates. It is legal for companies to require workers to get coronavirus vaccines and companies can also offer unlimited rewards to workers to get vaccinated, as long as the employer doesn’t administer the vaccine.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed, Non-profits
La acumulación de la licencia por enfermedad pagada es obligatoria en Washington, D.C. Visite el sitio web para consultar las preguntas frecuentes del empleador sobre la licencia por enfermedad pagada.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees
El programa de Licencia Familiar Remunerada de California (PFL, por sus siglas en inglés) brinda beneficios de reemplazo de salario a los trabajadores que necesitan tomarse un tiempo libre del trabajo para vincularse con un nuevo hijo o para cuidar a un familiar gravemente enfermo.
Este documento está previsto para responder cualquier pregunta que los pequeños empleadores puedan tener sobre el programa PFL de California y sus efectos en los propietarios de pequeñas empresas y sus trabajadores.
Audience: Small Business Owners
Resilience Compass se formó en respuesta a la crisis de COVID-19 como un servicio público colaborativo. Este grupo de socios, dirigido por Conveners.org, tiene como objetivo ayudar a las pequeñas empresas, cooperativas y organizaciones sin fines de lucro a navegar tranquilamente por aguas desconocidas mientras aceleran su camino hacia la recuperación.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed, Non-profits
La misión de la Oficina de Licencia Familiar Pagada (OPFL) es planificar, desarrollar y administrar un programa de licencia pagada para el Distrito de Columbia bajo las disposiciones de la Ley de Enmienda de Licencia Pagada Universal de 2016.
El 1 de julio de 2020, el Distrito de Columbia comenzó a administrar los beneficios de licencia pagada. Los trabajadores de DC ahora pueden solicitar una licencia familiar remunerada. La Ley de Licencia Pagada establece hasta:
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed
La ley de licencia remunerada por enfermedad de California permite a los empleados tomarse un tiempo libre del trabajo para atender su salud o la enfermedad de un miembro de la familia sin perder un cheque de pago.
Este documento está previsto para responder cualquier pregunta que los pequeños empleadores puedan tener sobre la ley de licencia remunerada por enfermedad de California y sus efectos en los propietarios de pequeñas empresas y sus trabajadores.
Audience: Small Business Owners
Since its enactment in 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has served as the cornerstone of the U.S. Department of Labor’s efforts to promote work-life balance. The FMLA has been used more than 100 million times to help workers balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of their families and their own health.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed, Non-profits
The Department of Labor (DOL) has created a questions and answers guide to navigating COVID-19 under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed, Non-profits
Do the requirements and benefits provided for in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) apply to you? This tool will quickly walk you through a handful of options to determine your eligibility as an employee for paid sick leave or paid expanded family and medical leave, or your obligations as an employer* to provide paid sick leave or paid expanded family and medical leave.
*Employer tool coming soon.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees, Self-employed, Non-profits
Temporary Caregiver Insurance was signed into law on July 11, 2013. TCI provides eligible claimants up to 4 weeks of caregiver benefits to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law or grandparent, or to bond with a newborn child, new adopted child or new foster-care child. You must apply for TCI benefits during the first 30 days after the first day of leave is taken for reasons of bonding or caregiving.
Audience: Small Business Owners, Employees
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