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Abilities United/Gatepath
Imagine a world where people of all abilities learn, live, work and play together!
AchieveKids
AchieveKids operates special education day schools for students with complex disabilities. Providing a community of respect, AK helps students build skills to find success within their communities.
Avenidas
A community-based nonprofit organization, Avenidas serves the San Francisco Bay Area mid-Peninsula communities of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Atherton,
Blossom Birth Services
Founded in 1999, Blossom is a non-profit community-based organization providing resources and support for a healthy, informed and confident pregnancy and parenting journey.
Downtown Streets Team
Ending Homelessness through the Dignity of Work
Ecumenical Hunger Program
EHP is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to sustain local families and individual experiencing hardship. We provide food, clothing, household essentials, support, and advocacy.
Midpen Media Center
The MidPen Media Center is a nonprofit agency with HD digital media resources & training available to the public. We also provide Pro-Services that can help your business with all your video needs.
Palo Alto Players
The Peninsula's First Theatre Company at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto
Ronald McDonald House at Stanford
Ronald McDonald House at Stanford creates a home-away-from-home and a supportive community for families of children with life-threatening illnesses receiving specialized treatment at local hospitals.
San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau
The San Mateo County/Silicon Valley CVB is a full-service Bureau. We offer assistance with convention site selection, official area visitor guides and maps, site inspection arrangements.
SCORE
Build or grow your business with the help of experienced consultants. Make an appointment at no cost.
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New Law for Employers
FAMILIES FIRST CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE ACT (FFCRA)
The full text of the FFCRA can be found here.
The FFCRA is a new federal law that requires employers with fewer than 500 employees to provide two new paid leave benefits for eligible employees affected by the COVID-19 virus in 2020. This applies only to those employees (not already laid off) who are home sick. The leave requirements generally provide paid sick time or paid leave under certain circumstances (as described more fully in the notice poster, link #4, below). The FFCRA also provides tax credits that may help employers provide the paid leave benefits.
The FFCRA helps the U.S. combat workplace effects of COVID-19 by reimbursing American private employers that have fewer than 500 employees with tax credits for the cost of providing employees with paid leave, taken for specified reasons related to COVID-19. The law enables employers to keep workers (who are home sick with COVID-19 related illness and therefore unable to work, even remotely) on their payrolls, while at the same time ensuring that workers are not forced to choose between their paychecks and the public health measures needed to combat the virus. The Departmnt's Wage and Hour Division administers the paid leave portions of the FFCRA.
If an employer has fewer than 50 employees and providing the paid leave benefits would jeopardize the viability of the business as a going concern, the small business exemption may apply. Employers who believe they qualify for the exemption should document why the business meets the exemption criteria unless and until the Department of Labor issues additional guidance on claiming the exemption.
Effective April 1, 2020, employers are required to properly notify their employees of the new FFCRA leave benefits and implement the requirements.
Below are links to important resources that contain compliant employee notices, guidance, and recommendations for employers subject to the FFCRA.
- Department of Labor: COVID-19 and the American Workplace
- Fact Sheet: FFCRA – Employee Paid Leave Rights (in English)
- Fact Sheet: FFCRA – Employer Paid Leave Requirements (in English)
- Compliant FFCRA notice poster for private-sector employees (in English)
- Department of Labor FAQ for the FFCRA employee notice poster
courtesy of Montgomery & Hansen, LLP