On July 1, 2025, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 55, which increases the number of hours of legally required paid time off (PTO) an employee must be able to accumulate year-over-year. Given the changes will take...more
On June 14, 2025, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed SF 17, the state’s omnibus jobs and workforce bill. The omnibus bill amends both the state’s paid sick leave law and the forthcoming paid family medical leave program...more
On June 4, 2025, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed LB 415, which modifies the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplace Act (HFWA) in advance of its October 1, 2025 effective date. Nebraska’s HFWA was one of three paid sick...more
On May 27, 2025, the mayor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania signed into law File # 250065, which took effect immediately. Although the ordinance amended a variety of local employment standards, our focus is their impact on the...more
On May 28, 2025, Oregon’s governor signed SB 1108, which, effective January 1, 2026, expands the reasons employees can use legally required paid sick leave to include blood donation connected with a voluntary program approved...more
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Recently I became the Chief Financial Officer at a growing company. We are in solid financial shape, but I have concerns about financial liability the company is carrying on its books in the form of unused...more
On April 10, 2025, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved further revisions to the Commission on Human Rights’ regulations implementing the county’s paid leave ordinance. Many private employers will welcome these...more
On February 21, 2025, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Senate Bill 8 and House Bill 4002, which, effective immediately, revise minimum wage, tip, and paid sick leave standards Michigan employers were expecting to take effect...more
2/25/2025
/ Employee Benefits ,
Employment Policies ,
Governor Whitmer ,
Labor Reform ,
Minimum Wage ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Sick Leave ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tip Credit ,
Tipped Employees ,
Wage and Hour
On September 29, 2024, California’s governor signed into law AB 2123. Beginning on January 1, 2025, AB 2123 will eliminate employers’ ability to require employees to use up to two weeks of company-provided...more
On July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4-to-3 decision, found unconstitutional legislative amendments that significantly revised minimum wage, tip, and paid sick leave standards....more
8/7/2024
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Reform ,
Medical Leave ,
MI Supreme Court ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Wage and Hour
On June 26, 2023, Connecticut’s governor signed SB 2, which expands the reasons covered employees can use leave under the state’s paid sick and safe leave law, effective October 1, 2023....more
On March 31, 2023, Bloomington, Minnesota published “initial” rules implementing its Earned Sick and Safe Leave (ESSL) Ordinance, which will take effect on July 1, 2023. It also published the mandatory Notice of Employee...more
The World Cup is fast approaching! Over the course of the tournament, we will be publishing our own matchups, comparing various aspects of labor and employment law in some of the participating countries. In Part I of this...more
The World Cup starts November 20, 2022 and will end in mid-December. Soccer fans from around the globe will be tuning in for the matches, or perhaps even attending in person. We thought we’d set up our own employment law...more
On July 22, 2022 and August 22, 2022, the Oregon Employment Department (OED) published its latest rules governing Oregon’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (PFMLI) program. The PFMLI program will be funded by...more
On May 10, 2022, Governor John Carney signed into law the Healthy Delaware Families Act, adding Delaware to an expanding list of jurisdictions with a paid family and/or medical leave (PFML) requirement. The law creates a...more
Maine’s governor recently signed H.P. 160 - L.D. 225, amending the state’s final wages statute to require that “[a]ll unused paid vacation accrued pursuant to the employer's vacation policy on and after January 1, 2023 must...more
4/25/2022
/ Accrued Benefits ,
Amended Legislation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Former Employee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
State Labor Laws ,
Termination ,
Vacation Pay ,
Wage and Hour
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which extends tax credits for private employers with 499 or fewer U.S. employees that voluntarily decide to provide emergency paid...more
3/18/2021
/ American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ,
Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
EFMLA ,
Employee Benefits ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Relief Measures ,
Sick Leave ,
Tax Credits ,
Tax Planning
On February 2, 2021, the Santa Rosa, California City Council voted to extend and make changes to its emergency paid sick leave (EPSL) ordinance that had expired at the end of 2020. Leading up to the meeting, proposed...more
When it comes to legislation, for California employers it's the final countdown. June 2 was the last day for bills to pass out of their house of origin. September 15 is the deadline for these bills to pass both legislative...more
6/13/2017
/ COBRA ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Discrimination ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Pay ,
Form I-9 ,
Health Insurance ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigrants ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Over-Time ,
Parental Leave ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Reproductive Discrimination ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Single-Payer ,
Tipped Employees ,
Veterans ,
Workplace Safety
The madness of March may be behind us, but April is no joke when it comes to minimum wage and overtime updates. Developments at the federal, state, and local levels could affect employer operations in the near or distant...more
5/1/2017
/ Ballot Measures ,
Employee Benefits ,
Governor Vetoes ,
Local Ordinance ,
Minimum Salary ,
Minimum Wage ,
Over-Time ,
Preemption ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Tips ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions ,
Work Schedules
Developments at the local and state level have affected what employers must do to comply with the San Francisco Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (“SF PPLO” or the “Ordinance”). The SF PPLO took effect on January 1, 2017 (for...more
On January 1, 2017, employers across the nation will face a host of new or amended federal, state, and/or local labor and employment requirements. At the same time, there is uncertainty as to how the Trump Administration and...more
12/7/2016
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Background Checks ,
Cell Phones ,
Commuter Tax Benefits ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Criminal Records ,
Data Breach ,
Decriminalization of Marijuana ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Domestic Workers ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Restrooms ,
Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Pay ,
Executive Compensation ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Firearms ,
Forum Selection ,
Franchises ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Insurance Exchanges ,
Healthcare ,
Immigrants ,
Investment Management ,
Joint Employers ,
Juvenile Justice System ,
Labor Law Violations ,
LGBTQ ,
Local Ordinance ,
Marijuana ,
Medical Marijuana ,
Minimum Wage ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Over-Time ,
Paid Leave ,
Payroll Records ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Retirement Plan ,
Sick Leave ,
Silica ,
Smoking Bans ,
Social Media Policy ,
Transportation Industry ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wellness Programs ,
Work Schedules ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
On April 21, 2016, Mayor Ed Lee signed an ordinance (File No. 160065) making San Francisco the first municipality to require private employers to compensate employees while on parental bonding leave. Under the law, dubbed the...more
When it wants to, the California Legislature can act with impressive speed. It did so last week on a minimum wage increase bill (SB 3)when, in less than 96 hours, it amended the legislation and sped it through two committee...more