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by Mike Bishop J.D. on November 19, 2020
Categories: Current Issue| HR and Employment Issues Topic Tags: Workplace Policies

Dear Rita: Our nonprofit has an employee who has been with us five years. She is a good worker who has always been able to balance work and personal needs well. Until the Covid-19 pandemic hit. This employee has three school-age children whose school closed because of the coronavirus in the spring of this year. The employee was provided paid leave under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) and expanded Family Medical Leave (expanded FMLA) when the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was passed. That paid leave has now been entirely exhausted. After the school physically reopened at …