Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 12:28 PM
Amid concerns of the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers introduced bills last week in both the House and Senate that would require all employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees. These bills could have a huge impact on the shoestring budgets of home care providers.
The bills would require all employers to provide 7 paid sick days to all employees as well as 14 additional paid sick days in case of a public health emergency. The legislation will seek to ensure that employers include that the paid leave will cover when an employee’s child’s school is closed due to a public health emergency.
“We are already seeing market consolidation as a result of PDGM and certain regulatory burdens that make it challenging for a smaller provider to keep up, and I fear this would add more fuel to the fire,” Angelo Spinola, an attorney and shareholder at San Francisco-based Littler said in an email. “If these agencies are over-regulated to the point of going out of business, our seniors and their families may be forced to the grey market of less qualified, unsupervised caregivers.”
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