ADHA Requests Benefits for Out-of-Work Dental Hygienists
With new legislation recently passing in the House and Senate to provide relief for Americans experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt Crespin, MPH, RDH, president of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA), sent letters to House and Senate leadership on March 20, in addition to the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor on March 19.
With new legislation recently passing in the House and Senate to provide relief for Americans experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, Matt Crespin, MPH, RDH, president of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA), sent letters to House and Senate leadership on March 20, in addition to the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor on March 19. The main issue is an exemption to the new legislation—Families First Coronavirus Response Act (HR 6201)—for small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Crespin requested that such an exemption be postponed until legislation that will help small business employees, such as dental hygienists, effectively weather the storm is introduced. In his letter to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House; Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader; Kevin McCarthy, Republican Leader, House of Representatives; and Charles Schumer, Senate Democratic Leader Crespin writes, “We do not support efforts to eliminate the possibility of that [financial compensation], such as the blanket exemption for dental practices from new paid leave requirements that organized dentistry is asking be provided automatically to all dental practices employing fewer than 50 people.”
Click here to read letters: https://www.adha.org/covid19
To read the legislation, click here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
