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==Introduction==

* [[The State of the COVID-19 Crisis in California]]

* [[About this Guide for California Employers]]

* [[A Word About Sullivan on Comp]]

* [[About the Authors]] 

* [[Webinars and Resources]]

==Employment and Labor Law==

* [[Employment and Labor Introduction]]

* [[State and Local Workplace Safety Orders]]

* [[Federal Health and Safety Orders — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidance]]

* [[FAQs — Health and Safety]]

* [[Leave — Family and Medical Leave Act & California Family Rights Act]]

* [[FAQs — Family and Medical Leave Act & California Family Rights Act]]

* [[Families First Coronavirus Response Act]]

* [[Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act]]

* [[Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act]]

* [[FAQs — Families First Coronavirus Response Act]]

* [[How Families First Coronavirus Response Act Interacts with Family and Medical Leave Act & California Family Rights Act]]

* [[State, County, and City Orders Applicable to Large Employers]]

* [[Disability and Reasonable Accommodations under the American with Disabilities Act & the Fair Employment and Housing Act]]

* [[FAQs — Disability and Reasonable Accommodations]]

* [[Federal Action Including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act]]

* [[Enhanced Unemployment]]

* [[Paycheck Protection Program]]

* [[Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loans & Emergency Economic Injury Grants]]

* [[California Resources — Unemployment and Disability Insurance, Paid Family Leave, Paid Sick Leave]]

* [[California Enacts New Supplemental Sick Leave Mandate Effective March 19, 2021]] <span style="color:#f00; font-weight:bold;">- EXPIRED, NO LONGER IN EFFECT</span>

* [[Federal and California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts]]

* [[Teleworking in Response to the Pandemic]]

* [[Return-to-Work Considerations]]

* [[FAQs — Return-To-Work Considerations]] 

* [[Employer Response to COVID-19 in the Workplace]] 

* [[Contact-Tracing Investigations]]

* [[FAQs — Contact-Tracing Investigations]]

* [[CAL/OSHA Imposes COVID-19 Safety Regulations on Businesses]]

* [[FAQs — Cal/OSHA Safety Regulations]]

* [[CAL/OSHA Imposes New Notice and Reporting Obligations for COVID-19 Workplace Exposure]] 

* [[Summer 2021 –– OSHA Updates Guidance on Protecting Workers in Health Care and Other Industries]]

* [[OSHA ETS Requirements]] <span style="color:#f00; font-weight:bold;">- WITHDRAWN BY OSHA ON JAN. 26, 2022, NOT IN EFFECT</span>

* [[Cal/OSHA Readopts and Updates the Emergency Temporary Standards and the California Department of Public Health Issues New Isolation and Quarantine Guidance]] <span style="color:#f00; font-weight:bold;">- PORTIONS NO LONGER IN EFFECT, REPLACED BY THIRD READOPTION OF THE ETS</span>

*[[Cal/OSHA Approves the Third Revision of the Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS)]] 

*[[OSHA Requirements — Recording and Reporting COVID-19]] 

*[[California Passes a New Version of Supplemental Paid Sick Leave]] 

*[[COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Extended Through Dec. 31, 2022]]

*[[San Francisco Adopts Public Health Emergency Leave Ordinance]]

*[[COVID-19 AB 685 Employee Notice Requirements Updated and Extended Until 2024]]

*[[Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Nonemergency Standards]]

* [[Appendix — Web Links For Local Safety Orders]]

==Workers' Compensation Law==

* [[When Is COVID-19 Work Related?]]

* [[COVID-19 Presumptions]] <span style="color:#f00; font-weight:bold;">- REPEALED EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2024</span>

* [[COVID-19 Presumptions — FAQs]] <span style="color:#f00; font-weight:bold;">- REPEALED EFFECTIVE JAN. 1, 2024</span>

* [[COVID-19 and the Exclusive Remedy Rule]]

* [[The Basic Rule — Increased Risk and the General Public]]

* [[Nonindustrial COVID-19 Aggravates an Industrial Condition]]

* [[Industrial COVID-19 Aggravates Nonindustrial Conditions]]

* [[Injuries from Vaccinations]]

* [[Injuries at Home or Due to the Home Office]]

* [[Psychiatric Injuries Caused by COVID-19]]

* [[Defenses to Psychological Claims]]

* [[Psychiatric Impairment Arising from COVID-19]]

* [[When Must a Claim Form Be Provided?]]

* [[When Should a Claim Form Be Provided?]]

* [[Effect on Statute of Limitations]]

* [[Provision of Benefits and Investigation Without a Claim Form]]

* [[Court Appearances]]

* [[Remote Depositions]]

* [[Remote Medical Treatment Examinations & Medical-Legal Appointments]]

* [[Payment of Temporary Disability]]