Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act

To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide for leave with respect to a public health emergency, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Labor and Employment

Summary

Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act

This bill provides employees with up to 12 weeks paid leave for a qualifying purpose during a public-health emergency with respect to the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19). Specifically, an employee may use such leave if the employee is

ordered or recommended to self-quarantine by a government official or health care provider,
caring for a family member who has been ordered or recommended to self-quarantine, or
caring for the employee's child because the child's school or child-care provider is closed.

Public health emergency leave is not available to employees who work an intermittent or reduced work schedule. An employee may substitute available accrued leave for public health emergency leave, but an employer may not require an employee to make such substitution.

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Related Legislation

H.R. 6201Families First Coronavirus Response Act
2020-03-19Engrossment Correction
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Legislative Actions

2020-03-12
Introduced in House
2020-03-12
Introduced in House
2020-03-12
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-03-12
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2020-03-12
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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