DOLs Final Rules on Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

Most employers offer some paid sick leave, and many states require it, but federal law, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, has never mandated it. President Obama's executive order changed that for federal contractors, and the DOL issued final rules to implement it.

This 60-minute webinar on the DOL's final rule on paid sick leave for federal contractors walks through the requirements, which are less simple than they look. You'll learn how to calculate available leave under the executive order, when unused leave carries over to the next year, and whether leave must be paid out at termination.

The session also covers what information you may request when an employee asks for leave, where the regulations conflict with the Family and Medical Leave Act, and suggested policies.

• Calculate available paid sick leave under the executive order
• Determine when leave carries over from one year to the next
• Handle paid sick leave at termination
• Request appropriate information when employees ask for leave
• Resolve conflicts between the regulations and the FMLA
• Draft policies that support compliance

• Paid sick leave under federal and state law
• The executive order requiring paid sick leave for federal contractors
• Calculating available leave under the executive order
• When available leave rolls over from one year to the next
• Payout of paid sick leave at termination
• What information you can request when someone asks for leave
• Conflicts between the regulations and the FMLA
• Suggested policies

Federal contractors must follow specific paid sick leave rules that go beyond what most state laws or company policies require. Getting accrual, carryover or documentation wrong can put a contract at risk.

This session suits federal contractors, HR managers and directors, business owners, management consultants, legal professionals and general counsel, supervisors, and payroll staff and executives.

• Federal contractors
• Human Resources Professionals (Managers, Directors)
• Business owners
• Management consultants
• Legal professionals
• Supervisors
• Payroll staff and executives
• General counsel

Stuart Silverman has been practicing law for almost 30 years and is the principal of the Law Offices of Stuart M. Silverman, P.A., located in Boca Raton, Florida. The emphasis of his practice is in the area of labor and employment law, and business and commercial litigation. Mr. Silverman has represented both private and public employers, as well as individual employees in a whole host of complex business disputes and employment settings at administrative levels, and state and federal trial and appellate courts. His extensive employment litigation experience includes claims under age, race, sex discrimination, wage and hour claims, whistleblower and retaliation claims, ADA and FMLA claims, public employee's claims, as well as disputes under employment contracts, non-compete agreements, trade secrets disputes, and partnership breakups. Mr. Silverman is a frequent speaker on his areas of practice.

Mr. Silverman is also a member of The Workplace Violence Prevention Institute (WPVI), a group formed to investigate solutions and strategies from a proactive and systemic perspective to minimize the risk of workplace violence, specifically violence caused by employees or former employees. He earned his B.A. degree, with high honors, and his J.D. degree from Rutgers University. Mr. Silverman is admitted to The Florida Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.