WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced its first round of published guidance to provide information to employees and employers about how each will be able to take advantage of the protections and relief offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) when it takes effect on April 1, 2020.

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Please see the announced Testing Sites:

Beginning today: Drive-thru Covid-19 testing available daily for symptomatic individuals 18+ at three sites in the New Orleans area. Open 8am-6pm or until 250 capacity is met at each site. Details: www.ready.nola.gov 

LINK TO NOLA.READY.GOV

March 22, 2020

Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a statewide Stay at Home order that goes into effect at 5 p.m. Monday, March 23, to further fight the spread of COVID-19 in Louisiana, as the number of confirmed cases have topped 800 and spread to more than half of our parishes.

• Click here to read the Governor’s statewide Stay at Home order.
• Click here to see graphics.

Treasury, IRS and Labor announce plan to implement Coronavirus-related paid leave for workers and tax credits for small and midsize businesses to swiftly recover the cost of providing Coronavirus-related leave

Link to IRS Guidelines

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-irs-and-labor-announce-plan-to-implement-coronavirus-related-paid-leave-for-workers-and-tax-credits-for-small-and-midsize-businesses-to-swiftly-recover-the-cost-of-providing-coronavirus

Update Friday, March 20,2020

COVID-19 UPDATES




Please click the link below to gain access to different links for government assistance due to COVID-19

https://ready.nola.gov/incident/coronavirus/resources/

Please click the link to be directed to the unemployment guidelines for Louisiana. It is clear that all employees impacted by the decline in business qualifies for unemployment based on the rules.
 
https://eligibility.com/unemployment/louisiana-la-unemployment-benefits
 Please share this with your employees and partners and encourage as a means to bridge the gap for reduced hours or illnesses.

Greg Rouchell share highlights yesterday for legislation that was in the works, that bill has passed and is law. Check out he updated post from Greg and our partners at Adams and Resse. 

https://www.adamsandreese.com/news-knowledge/revised-bill-signed-into-law-requiring-small-businesses-to-provide-paid-leave-due-to-coronavirus

NOLA SHRM Announces Virtual Monthly Meeting

We Are Doing Our Part!

The NOLA SHRM March 18th Meeting is still on...Virtually! While there is a loud debate taking place locally and around the world, we are in a situation where we do not know many things. We do know from history how pandemics and global crisis are impacted by gathering of people. We also know there are limits to our healthcare infrastructure and it’s beloved workers. Business as usual is not in the greater good!

How Canceled Events and Self Quarantines SAVES LIVES!

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Many of our members are in leadership positions, working to determine how to address the implications for their organizations. Each organization and person will have to make choices in the days and months ahead to address our new reality. The NOLA SHRM 2020 Board of Directors has discussed this decision to go virtual and are working to ensure that your on-line experience has minimal difference from being in person. This is how we can contribute and demonstrate our understanding of the severity of today’s reality. This is NOLA SHRM doing its very small part in the grand scheme.

If you have registered already, no need to do anything - we will share the Webinar login information to you prior to the event. If you have not registered, please plan to join us by registering here. We hope that this online option works better for those of you are not able to travel to our Monthly Meetings.