27 March 2020 District of Columbia employees may use accrued paid sick leave for COVID-19 Under District of Columbia emergency legislation (DC Act 23-247), District of Columbia employees affected by COVID-19 may choose to use their accrued paid sick leave that employers are required to provide under the Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act of 2008 and Earned Sick and Safe Leave Amendment Act of 2013. Under the paid sick leave law, employers with 100 or more employees must allow employees to earn one hour per 37 hours worked up to seven paid sick leave days a year; employers with 25-99 or more employees must allow employees to earn one hour per 43 hours worked up to five paid sick leave days a year; and employers with fewer than 25 employees must allow employees to earn one hour per 87 hours worked up to three paid sick leave days a year The emergency COVID-19 Act provides that the one-year employment requirement and 1,000-hour work requirement under the paid sick leave law does not apply to an employee who has been ordered or recommended to quarantine or isolate by a medical professional or District or federal agency. Note that the new DC Paid Family and Medical Leave program, to which employers have been making contributions since second quarter 2019, is not scheduled to be available to claimants until July 2020. (See EY Payroll Newsflash Vol. 20, #133, 9-9-2019 and the DC Paid Family Leave website.)
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