Mandatory COVID-19 Leave Expired December 31st
On December 31st, the mandatory coronavirus sick leave and family leave passed by Congress last March in the FFCRA expired. The two kinds of leave – you remember them, right? – were not extended by the big coronavirus relief package passed by Congress December 21st and signed by the President on the 27th. Incidentally, the relief package was dubbed, unusually unimaginatively, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.” On December 31st, the Department of Labor noted the expiration of the leave requirements, and…