Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 7, 2016 the Saint Paul, MN city council unanimously passed a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance — following the lead of Minneapolis, which passed a similar ordinance in May — becoming the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 16, 2016 the Chicago, IL City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development and Audit recommended that the city adopt a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance—the first of its kind in the state. This...more
Seyfarth Shaw submitted comments on behalf of the Firm and its clients responding to the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed regulations seeking to require certain parties that contract with the Federal Government to provide...more
Following up on Executive Order 13706 from September 2015 (the “Order”), earlier today the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) took a major step toward extending paid sick leave benefits to employees of federal...more