We hope you are staying safe and healthy during these
uncertain times. Over the last month, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed
on an almost daily basis. Throughout the crisis, RMWBH is continuing to
provide the legal updates our clients have come to expect via webinars,
social media updates and blog posts.
In this edition of the Community Association Newsletter,
Equity Shareholders Marc Markel and Greg Godkin and Shareholder Clint
Brown share the latest community association updates related to
COVID-19. Also, Equity Shareholders Clayton Hearn and Justin Markel
break down the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
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RMWBH Virtual Roundtable: Single-Family Community
Association Questions Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Join Founding Shareholder Marc Markel as he moderates a
special Q&A webinar with Shareholders Clint Brown and Leah Burton.
Clint and Leah will be answering your single-family community
association questions relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. You
can submit your questions early, by filling in the question box on the
registration form.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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RMWBH Virtual Roundtable: Condominium Association
Questions Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Join Founding Shareholder Marc Markel as he moderates a
special Q&A webinar with Shareholders Clint Brown and Leah. Clint
and Leah will be answering your condominium association questions
relating to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. You can submit your
questions early, by filling in the question box on the registration form.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Keeping Our Community Associations Operational
During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Marc Markel, Greg Godkin and Clint Brown
Over the last few weeks, we have received a multitude of
phone calls and emails from clients asking how their community
association and condominium association should be reacting due to new
regulations passed by the local, state and federal governments. Many of
these questions are unique to the individual associations, yet we have
developed some general guidelines that can be applied to most
associations for collections, deed restriction enforcement, court
actions and insurance.
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Employment Law Alert: Families First Coronavirus
Response Act
By Clayton Hearn and Justin Markel
On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), a law which affects
most employers with fewer than 500 employees. The new law has two
statutes of immediate importance to employers: (i) the Emergency Paid
Sick Leave Act (“EPSLA”), which requires employers to provide 80 hours
of paid time off to employees for COVID-19-related reasons, and (ii)
the Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act (“EFMLEA”), which
provides employees with 12 weeks of job-protected leave for leave to
care for children whose schools or places of care have closed, or whose
childcare provider is unavailable, due to COVID-19-related public
health emergencies. The information available about this new law is
limited, but new information is coming out almost daily. The U.S.
Department of Labor (“DOL”) has released several rounds of
informational FAQs for employers and employees in preparation of the
law taking effect, and more guidance materials (in addition to formal
regulations) are expected to be released in the near future. This
article outlines what employers should know about the new law based on
the text of the law itself and the Department of Labor guidance issued
to date.
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