Categories: HEAL®: Health Employment and Labor

Our colleague Nancy Gunzenhauser Popper at Epstein Becker Green has recently published a post on the Workforce Bulletin blog that will be of interest to our readers in the health care industry: “Colorado Mandates 4 Days of Paid Leave for COVID-19 Testing.”

Following is an excerpt:

On March 10, 2020, Colorado Governor Jared Polis issued an executive order directing he Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (“DLE”) to create emergency rules to “ensure workers in food handling, hospitality, child care, health care, and education can get paid sick leave to miss work if they exhibit flu-like symptoms and have to miss work awaiting testing results for COVID-19.”

The DLE issued the Colorado Health Emergency Leave with Pay (“HELP”) Rules, which mandates four days of paid sick leave for employees in certain industries who have flu-like symptoms to receive COVID-19 testing. …

Read the full article here.

Tags: Colorado, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing
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