I hope you are able to come out of this on the top side. I think the season is done. Sorry for your struggles. This is indeed getting very real. keep your head up, Maintain common sense and don't dwell on the negatives. you have a whole Blazers community ready to help if they can, im sure.
COVID-19 Update: President Trump Signs Family First Coronavirus Response Act As we expected, the federal government will provide additional sick leave relief and paid child care leave for employees; in anticipation of things to come, California will ease employers’ mass layoff notice requirements. Families First Coronavirus Response Act On March 18, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the legislature’s response to the COVID-19 health crisis. Private employers with fewer than 500 employees and all government employers must be ready to offer emergency family and medical leave and emergency paid sick leave to eligible employees. Additional information and further clarification on these sweeping provisions will likely be provided in the coming days through federal guidance. This program will become effective within 15 days after its enactment by President Trump and is set to expire on December 31, 2020. Emergency Paid Sick Leave The paid sick leave portion of the Act requires covered employers to provide all employees who cannot work or telework due to COVID-19 related circumstances, with up to 80 hours of paid sick time, prorated for part-time employees. Employees are eligible if they meet any one of the following circumstances: The employee is subject to a Federal, State, or local quarantine or isolation order related to COVID-19. The employee has been advised by a health care provider to self-quarantine due to concerns related to COVID-19. The employee is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and seeking a medical diagnosis. The employee is caring for an individual who is subject to an order as described in subparagraph (1) or has been advised as described in paragraph (2). The employee is caring for a son or daughter if the school or place of care of the son or daughter has been closed, or the child care provider of the son or daughter is unavailable, due to COVID-19 precautions. The employee is experiencing any other substantially similar condition specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Labor. If an employee is taking the leave for any one of the first three reasons listed above, the employee must be compensated at the higher of his or her regular rate, the federal minimum wage, or the local minimum wage. If an employee is taking the leave for one of the three subsequent reasons listed above, the employee must be paid two-thirds of the rate he or she would otherwise receive. This paid leave is separate and above any existing sick leave entitlements that employees may already have. Compliance with the provisions of the emergency paid sick leave portion of the Act also requires employers to post notices explaining employees’ entitlement to the paid sick leave. Similar to the emergency family and medical leave provisions, the Act provides that the Secretary of Labor shall have the authority to exclude certain health care providers and emergency responders, as well as small businesses with fewer than 50 employees from the paid sick leave requirements. Emergency Family and Medical Leave Employees who have been employed for 30 consecutive days will be eligible for 12 weeks of job protected leave if they are unable to work (or telework) due to a need to care for a child under 18 years of age because the child’s school or place of care has been closed or because the child care provider is unavailable due to COVID-19. While the first 10 days of the leave may be unpaid, the remainder must be paid at no less than two-thirds of an employee’s regular rate of pay, not to exceed $200 per day and $10,000 in the aggregate. Employees may choose to use previously available sick leave, vacation leave, or paid time off; however, employers cannot require employees to utilize such leave. The Secretary of Labor has the authority to issue regulations to exclude certain health care providers, as well as employers with fewer than 50 employees, from the emergency family and medical relief provision’s requirements.
The upcoming job losses will be unlike anything the US has ever seen https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/the...-be-unlike-anything-the-us-has-ever-seen.html
I find it literally insane how all of these companies just shedded the jobs like nothing. Some are more humane than others, but this is going to be a huge wake up call to the workforce.
3 friends in 3 completely different lines of work just called me within a ten minute window informing me they had been layed off. That just hit home for me.
When will the Defense Production Act be in action? Until then lots of Americans will die needlessly. Where is his compassion in not invoking the act to provide health care workers and sick patients with vitally needed health care equipment?
It was seen in 1929 with the crash of the stock market. However, we just might see another Great Depression with this one.
@THE HCP saw your video on twitter, so happy for you and your family that the Blazers came through for you guys. Stay safe out there.
Me too. Just watched it and it makes me proud that the team I support is taking care if its people. I’m happy that you and your family will have less to worry about while we wait this thing out.
My sister is a self employed caterer and she has lost her income. No unemployment. She has savings for a couple of weeks, not months.
Really hoping for the best. Hopefully you can find work too. Maybe they’ll start playing with no crowds.
When people can’t gather, lots of jobs suddenly become illegal. I work in the events industry for a major corporation, they have pared some non-essential types, but are keeping most of us on for the time being. That being said, they way this shit is going, nobody knows what to expect day by day, hell hour by hour. Rapidly changing variables from all angles. I also work on a day rate for a local theater doing production management, they are basically shutting the doors until fall at the earliest. They just refunded 500k worth of tickets and cancelled every show they had for months. Laying off most full timers, keeping a couple at half pay to keep the pipes from freezing. From 40 employees to 5 overnight. My side hustle supplying techs for events vanished. I don’t have much overhead so there isnt an ongoing loss, but I’m losing the income till this shakes out. I am one of the lucky ones in this industry that still has a job, I’d say 90% of backstage labor type jobs disappeared over the course of 2 or 3 days. Also, I work with quite a few local lighting/audio/etc production houses. At least half of them probably won’t come out the other side of this without massive government help, most people leverage their assets to get loans for the newest gear, or buy a larger warehouse for example, and if the timing was weird last week, they already got crushed by the loan payments. and then, for all the general stagehand types...no gigs, no money. Lots of freelance, 1099 type shit before. Not much to fall back on. Lots of peeps with families and bills to pay. brutal shit. I’m gonna start charging for blowjobs, been giving them away for free all this time. Batter up!
Well it looks like THE HCP is about to be on the KATU2 sports in a few minutes. Joe Becker just called me and asked if he could run my tweet on the broadcast.
