Climate Across the Americas

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Climate Across the Americas

We want to tell you about the geographic and culturally diverse Climate AcrosstheAmericas event! Your participation will help make this event unique, thought-provoking and eye-opening.

This is a free, online Zoom event.

Across the Americas, we are all experiencing the climate crisis differently. We encourage you to share the impact the climate crisis has on you and to share actionable ideas that you are taking to mitigate the climate crisis.

Approximately 50 presenters from Climate AcrosstheAmericas will share 90 second answers to the questions:

  • Saturday, October 3 6-8pm ET
    (5-7pm CDMX, 4-6pm MT, 7-9pm GMT-3)
    Why Is addressing the Climate Crisis Important to Me?
  • Sunday, October 4 6-8pm ET
    (5-7pm CDMX, 4-6pm MT, 7-9pm GMT-3)
    What is My Climate Action?

Following the prepared presentations, we encourage all participants to share their own answers to these reflective questions, hear new perspectives, and connect with each other.

Presenters are invited to speak in their native languages of English, Spanish and Portuguese. The event link will be sent to the email you enter below on the day of the event.

We are working to bring simultaneous translation. We hope to see you there!

Click to sign-up now

Three Day Post-It Note Challenge

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Do you have a Post-it Note nearby? What about a pen? Have you been postponing taking action on creating your big talk or dream?

If you are saying yes to these questions, then here is an amazing opportunity for you to take action on your behalf.

I’m personally inviting you to join my dear friend and colleague, Tricia Brouk’s Three Day Post-It Note Challenge and see just what’s possible for yourself when you are pushed outside your comfort zone, when you are accountable and when you have the opportunity for feedback.

She’s giving you an opportunity for feedback too! The three day Post-It Note Challenge started this past Monday, September 14.

So, register here right away! https://alysiadahir–thebigtalk.thrivecart.com/bta-fall-2020-2/5f4fe9e87fe69

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Employer Paid Leave Requirements

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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA or Act) requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19.[1] The Department of Labor’s (Department) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) administers and enforces the new law’s paid leave requirements. These provisions will apply from the effective date through December 31, 2020.

Generally, the Act provides that covered employers must provide to all employees:[2]

  • Two weeks (up to 80 hours) of paid sick leave at the employee’s regular rate of pay where the employee is unable to work because the employee is quarantined (pursuant to Federal, State, or local government order or advice of a health care provider), and/or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and seeking a medical diagnosis; or
  • Two weeks (up to 80 hours) of paid sick leave at two-thirds the employee’s regular rate of pay because the employee is unable to work because of a bona fide need to care for an individual subject to quarantine (pursuant to Federal, State, or local government order or advice of a health care provider), or care for a child (under 18 years of age) whose school
    or child care provider is closed or unavailable for reasons related to COVID-19, and/or the employee is experiencing a substantially similar condition as specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor.

A covered employer must provide to employees that it has employed for at least 30 days:[3]

  • Up to an additional 10 weeks of paid expanded family and medical leave at two-thirds the employee’s regular rate of pay where an employee is unable to work due to a bona fide need for leave to care for a child whose school or child care provider is closed or unavailable for reasons related to COVID-19.

Covered Employers: The paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave provisions of the FFCRA apply to certain public employers, and private employers with fewer than 500 employees.[4] Most employees of the federal government are covered by Title II of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which was not amended by this Act, and are therefore not covered by the expanded family and medical leave provisions of the FFCRA. However, federal employees covered by Title II of the Family and Medical Leave Act are covered by the paid sick leave provision.

Small businesses with fewer than 50 employees may qualify for exemption from the requirement to provide leave due to school closings or child care unavailability if the leave requirements would jeopardize the viability of the business as a going concern.

* Please note that programs are consistently changing. Read more and stay up to date at https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employer-paid-leave