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05/01/2024 12:57 AM
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House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: March 22, 2023 10:54 AM
From: Representative Emily Kinkead
To: All House members
Subject: Work-Related Compensation for Hospitalized/Quarantined Frontline Workers
 
For nearly three years, frontline workers have risked exposure to COVID-19, risking their health and livelihoods in service to the people and communities of this Commonwealth. Their efforts have helped keep Pennsylvanians safe and supplied with crucial goods and services as the pandemic continues. Our support for these workers is paramount.
 
I will soon be reintroducing legislation establishing a presumption that during a declared disaster emergency, epidemic, public health emergency, or pandemic, a frontline worker’s medical condition and inability to work due to hospitalization, quarantine, isolation, or other control measures required to control infection or exposure is a direct result of that worker’s work-related duties. Affected workers will not be required to use sick, vacation, personal or other accrued paid or contractual leave to cover their absence from work. Instead, they will qualify and be eligible for unemployment compensation for the duration of the period of incapacitation or inability to work and workers’ compensation for all medical costs related to infection or exposure. These provisions apply to future declarations of disaster emergency as well as what remains of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
 
This bill was previously introduced as HB 1078 in 2021-2022 (and as HB 2396 in 2019-2020). HB 1078 was co-sponsored by Burgos, A. Davis, Deasy, Delloso, Freeman, Galloway, Hill-Evans, Hohenstein, Innamorato, Isaacson, Kinsey, Madden, Parker, Rozzi, Sanchez, Schlossberg, Schweyer, Warren, Wheatley, D. Williams, Zabel, and Pisciottano.
It is imperative that we acknowledge the hazardous duty frontline workers are required to undertake just by going to work and ensure that these brave workers receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Please join me in support of frontline workers by supporting this important legislation.
 


Introduced as HB1431