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Recent Updates to Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000

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As of June 19, 2025, the Ontario’s Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) was amended to include a new protected leave: Long-Term Illness Leave. This new Long-Term Illness Leave creates essentially an indefinite leave of...more

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Washington State Expands Employee Access to Personnel Files

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Washington State has long required employers to allow employees to inspect their own personnel files, but the relevant statutes previously did not define what qualifies as a “personnel file” nor provide clear timelines for...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Virginia Expands Non-Compete Restrictions Beginning July 1, 2025

At the end of March, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB 1218, which amends Virginia’s non-compete ban for “low-wage” workers (the “Act”) to include non-exempt employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”)....more

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UK Parliament Proposes Increased Penalties for Failure to Consult in a Collective Redundancy

The Employment Rights Bill has undergone significant amendments in March 2025 as it progresses through Parliament. Included in the amended bill are changes addressing redundancy and the controversial practice of “fire and...more

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New York State Expands Lactation Accommodation Requirements

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On December 9, 2022, New York State amended the Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act to provide additional specifications for lactation rooms and to impose new written policy requirements on all employers. The new...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Illinois Amends Recreational Marijuana Statute to Clarify Employers’ Rights

On December 4, 2019, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law amendments to the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (Illinois Cannabis Act) that clarify employer rights to enforce reasonable workplace drug...more

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New York State’s Updates on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Anti-Discrimination Laws

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In recent months, the New York State legislature has enacted amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”) and other laws aimed at expanding protections against discrimination and harassment. The laws emphasize...more

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Illinois Legislature Amends Marijuana Law, Bringing Clarity, Relief to Employers with Workplace Drug-Testing Programs

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As we reported over the summer, on June 25, 2019, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (the “Act”) into law. This Act legalizes the use, possession, and even cultivation of marijuana by...more

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Preparation and Training Critical as Illinois Employers Face New Legal Landscape

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Illinois employers must begin preparing now for the host of new legal requirements impacting the workplace beginning in 2020. With legal changes on topics ranging from hiring practices and pay equity to drug testing and...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

New Jersey Expands its Medical Cannabis Act to Include Workplace Protections

Prior to July 2nd, New Jersey’s Medical Cannabis Act lacked protections for employees’ off-duty medical marijuana use.  Indeed, last year the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held that nothing in the Medical...more

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New Jersey Enacts Broad Employment Protections for Registered Medical Cannabis Users

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On July 2, 2019, New Jersey joined Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, New York City, and Oklahoma in enacting employment protections for authorized users of medical cannabis. New Jersey’s new medical cannabis law (“Law”), which...more

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New York Lawmakers Pass Game-Changing Reforms to State Discrimination Laws

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Still grappling with the expansive sexual harassment reforms passed last year, New York businesses and employers will soon need to manage through yet another expansive suite of amendments that will continue the state’s...more

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NYC Expands Earned Sick Time Act to Cover “Safe Time” - Hedge Up: A Heads-Up on Employment Issues Confronting the Hedge Fund and...

• New measure expands the NYC Earned Sick Time Act to Cover “Safe Time.” • Safe Time can be used when an employee or a member of the employee’s family has been the victim of a family offense matter, sexual offense,...more

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New York City Mandates Cooperative Dialogue for Accommodation Requests

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New York City maintains some of the most expansive and comprehensive human rights laws in the nation. Two new amendments to the city’s laws, which address the process that employers (and other covered entities, such as public...more

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California Enacts "Fix-It" Legislation to Cure Ills of Paid Sick Leave Law

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California’s paid sick leave law went into effect on July 1, 2015, but soon found itself in the emergency room with many unpleasant side effects. On July 13, Governor Brown signed AB 304 into law, which fixes many of the...more

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California Governor Signs Paid Sick Leave Amendment—Effective Immediately

California Governor Brown signed legislation on July 13, 2015 that aims to clarify and improve California’s new paid sick leave law that requires employers to offer employees 3 days or 24 hours of paid sick leave per year as...more

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