On August 6, 2024, Governor Maura Healey signed into law, the Affordable Homes Act, (H.4977) authorizing nearly $5.16 billion in spending over the next five years with approximately 49 policy initiatives to counter rising...more
On July 31, 2024, Governor Maura Healy signed into law, An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency (H.4890) which requires certain employers to disclose salaries and submit wage data reports to the Commonwealth. The goal of...more
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State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On August 12, 2022, Chief Justice Heidi E. Brieger of the Massachusetts Superior Court adopted Superior Court Standing Order 1-22, effective September 1, 2022, which expanded the category of proceedings to be “presumptively”...more
On February 26, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) clarified the standard to be used for factual causation in multiple defendant tort actions. The SJC’s opinion in Doull v. Foster, 487 Mass. 1 (2021),...more
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led civic leaders at every level, public and private, to encourage or require behavior designed to mitigate the spread of disease, from “social distancing” to closing public venues to...more
Beginning in January, 2021 most workers in Massachusetts will be eligible to receive up to 12 weeks of paid family leave time and up to 20 weeks of paid medical leave. The Commonwealth’s Paid Family and Medical Leave program...more