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Labor/Employment,
Health Care & Hospital Law

Dec. 21, 2022

COVID sick pay relief expiring, employers may face lawsuits

Two cases in particular are expected to have a greater impact on workplace litigation, than the end of AB 152.

Starting Jan. 1, California employers will no longer be required to provide supplemental paid sick leave for COVID-19. But litigation about worker infections continues.

Assembly Bill 152, the law that mandated the extra paid time off, expires Dec. 31. And while a recent spike in California has started to wane, some public health experts say newly lifted restrictions in China could fuel new variants of the virus in California.

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