Post Date: March 24, 2020
FAMILY LEAVE | SICK LEAVE | |
Covered employer | Private sector employers with fewer than 500 workers and government entities |
Private sector employers with fewer than 500 workers and government entities |
Qualifying circumstances | Care giving for child younger than 18 whose day care or school closed |
Quarantine, medical diagnosis, care giving for another quarantined individual or for child whose day care or school closed |
Length of leave | As many as 12 weeks | Two weeks for full time workers and similar equivalent for part-time workers |
Benefit amount | Unpaid for first 10 days, then at least two-thirds of a worker’s normal pay rate, capped at $200 per day or $10,000 total. |
Normal wage or minimum wage, whichever is greater, capped at $5,110 for a worker’s quarantine or diagnosis. Care giving benefit would be two-thirds of normal or minimum wage, capped at $2,000. |
Employer tax credit | Covers wages of as much as $200 per day or $10,000 total |
Covers daily wages of as much as $511 tor affected employee, or as much as $200 for employee caring tor someone else |
Self-employed tax credit | The lesser of $200 per day or 67% of average daily self- employment income |
The lesser of $511 per day or average daily self-employment income for affected individual, or the lesser of $200 or 67% of average daily self employment income if caring for someone else |