How to Balance Diverse Views in the Office
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Legal Shifts in 2025 Put Employer Non-Compete Strategies at Risk - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Handling References and Referrals While Safeguarding Your Business
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 1: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 42: Non-Compete Agreements with Mitchell Greggs of Maynard Nexsen
Creativity and Compliance: Innovating Ethics - Creativity in Corporate Compliance with Katie Lawler
Culture Crafters: Preventing and Fixing a Cultural Disconnect
DE Talk | Using Employment Networks to Connect with Individuals with Disabilities in an Ever-Changing Workforce
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 33: Generations in the Workplace with Caroline Warner of The South Carolina Power Team, Part 1
Managing Employee Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries — Hiring to Firing Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education
Podcast - The Latest on Antitrust and Non-Compete Agreements in Healthcare
Episode 16 | The Basics for Building Your Workforce
Protecting Trade Secrets When Facing Lawsuits or Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures
Episode 138 -- Employee Relations and Engagement in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Oregon employers must once again be ready to comply with a slate of new legislative changes from the Oregon Legislature’s recent session, which concluded on June 27, 2025. These new laws make changes to Paid Leave Oregon and...more
Key Takeaways - - The Washington state mini-WARN law, effective July 27, 2025, requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide 60 days' advance written notice of mass layoffs or business closures to the Washington...more
Employers operating in Washington State must take steps quickly to comply with a slew of new labor and employment laws passed by the Washington State Legislature during the recent session. These new laws significantly expand...more
California often finds itself at the forefront of labor and employment law, with changes affecting employers each year. This year is no different. In 2025, employers can expect a variety of impactful changes to the...more
As mandatory State paid family leave and paid family and medical leave (collectively “PFML”) programs have significantly expanded and proliferated in recent years, participating employers and employees have been faced with a...more
STAY AHEAD OF 2025’s LEGAL CHANGES - Review your employee handbook and employment contracts for necessary updates on these changes to the law, effective January 1, 2025. Employer Captive Audience Meetings are Banned...more
In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 Days of California Labor and Employment" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on employers. On the eleventh day of the holidays, my labor and...more
While Maine employers are still waiting for the Department of Labor to finalize regulations related to the recently instituted Paid FML program, there are steps that employers should take now....more
In 2004, California became the first state to enact a Paid Family Leave (PFL) program. This program was designed to extend disability compensation to individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child,...more
In one of the first decisions interpreting the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that the PFMLA does not require an employer to allow employees to accrue benefits,...more
The Minnesota legislature continues to be busy, amending and clarifying the sweeping paid sick and family leave laws it passed last year. While some of these amendments provide much needed clarification, others add further...more
The 2024 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly, which concluded on May 8, 2024, was not especially prolific in terms of the volume of labor and employment related bills passed. ...more
As we previously advised, under Oregon Senate Bill 1515 (“SB 1515”) effective July 1, 2024, most of the Oregon Family Leave Act (“OFLA”)—including leave for the employee’s or a family member’s serious health condition—will...more
2024 marks the start of the sixth year that NY PFL benefits are available to eligible employees. As a reminder, under the NY PFL law, eligible employees may receive up to 12 weeks of job-protected paid leave in a 52-week...more
With required contributions to the Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Fund starting this fall, Maryland employers should make sure employees have advance notice of the new deductions they will be seeing from their...more
In the past few months, California Governor Newsom has signed numerous new employment laws affecting California employers of all sizes. Below is a summary of some of the laws going into effect in 2024....more
The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) recently issued updates to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFML). Included in the 2024 updates are changes to the required workplace poster and employee...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Act requires employers to post a notice and to annually notify employees of updates to contribution rates and weekly benefit amounts....more
Important changes are coming to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (PFML), which requires covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid time off for certain qualifying absences. First, the...more
Recent amendments to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (PFML) now allow employees to supplement their weekly PFML benefit amount with accrued paid leave (vacation, sick time, PTO, etc.). PFML contribution...more
Effective November 1, 2023, the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law will allow employees to supplement (i.e. “top off”) benefits received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with any available accrued...more
What You Need To Know: Effective August 7, 2023, Colorado employees will be able to use leave under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act for bereavement, to care for family members whose school or place of...more
Last year, Delaware enacted the Healthy Delaware Families Act (HDFA), adding Delaware to an expanding list of jurisdictions with a paid family and medical leave (PFML) requirement. The PFML program is not yet live, and the...more
Approximately one year ago, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Time to Care Act of 2022 (SB 275/HB8). Maryland became the eleventh state (in addition to the District of Columbia) to adopt a statewide family and medical...more
As we discussed in our annual update back in December, employers continue to see extensive developments on the labor and employment front as they progress through 2023. Aside from the minimum wage increases, pay...more