![]() seeking a diagnosis, treatment, or care (including preventive care) of such an illness.self-isolating or excluded from the workplace due to exposure, symptoms, or diagnosis of the communicable illness in the PHE.Employees can access this supplemental leave if they are: The PHEL portion of the law requires employers to provide employees access to up to 80 hours of supplemental leave from the day a public health emergency (PHE) 1 is declared until four weeks after the PHE ends. Presuming that the governor extends the public health emergency for yet another four weeks (which is quite likely), it will reach until at least Janu– triggering PHEL obligations as of January 1, 2021. In support of this position, CDLE points to the original declaration of a public health emergency in Colorado, Executive Order D 2020 003, which has been extended multiple times, most recently in D 2020 268, which extends the emergency through December 27, 2020. ![]() Employers must provide employees access to up to 80 hours of PHEL as of Janudue to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Accordingly, as 2021 fast approaches, Colorado employers have been making arrangements to sunset their CO-EPSL programs and transition to the new regime of PSST and PHEL.īut one overarching question remained: does the COVID-19 public health emergency, which was declared on Main Executive Order D 2020 003-more than four months before the HFWA originally took effect-trigger employers’ obligations to provide public health emergency leave in 2021? On December 23, 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued guidance in the form of Interpretative Notice & Formal Opinion #6C (INFO 6C) and emergency revisions to the Wage Protection Rules, -7. The CO-EPSL portion of the law is in effect from Jthrough December 31, 2020, while the remaining two portions-PSST and PHEL-imminently take effect on January 1, 2021. ![]() supplemental public health emergency paid sick leave (PHEL) (up to a maximum of 80 hours).up to 48 hours of paid sick and safe time (PSST) and.up to 80 hours of COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave (CO-EPSL).Earlier this year, Colorado enacted a complex paid sick leave law, the Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA), which requires Colorado employers to provide three distinct types of paid sick leave:
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