Employer Liability Issues, Accrued Benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO)

Gone But Not Forgotten: How to Handle Final Pay and Benefits When an Employee Passes Away, Part 2

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/25/2025

Benefits and Beyond: What Happens to PTO, Health Insurance, Retirement Plans, and other Benefits?...more

Critical Updates to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Law

Littler on 10/13/2023

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

Third Circuit Finds Deductions from Accrued PTO Do Not Violate Salary Basis Requirement for Exempt Employees

Littler on 4/12/2023

The Third Circuit recently highlighted the flexibility afforded to employers when providing fringe benefits to salaried exempt employees. In Higgins v. Bayada Home Health Care Inc., No. 21-3286, 2023 WL 2518345 (3d Cir. Mar....more

Colorado Employers May Need to Pay Out Accrued Vacation on Termination

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 8/25/2021

Colorado employers should carefully review their vacation and paid time off policies following a recent decision from the Colorado Supreme Court. On June 14, 2021, the Colorado Supreme Court held in Nieto v. Clark’s Market...more

In Colorado, Employers May Giveth - But They May Not Taketh Away

BCLP on 7/6/2021

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court finally resolved a longstanding issue in Colorado employment law: whether employers may have a policy or agreement that provides for forfeiture of accrued but unused vacation. The...more

Paid Sick Leave is Coming to Pittsburgh

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/23/2019

On July 17, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the City of Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Days Act (PSDA)—a 2015 ordinance that required businesses to provide paid sick leave to workers in the City—is valid....more

Massachusetts High Court Rules That Sick Pay Does Not Constitute Wages Under State Law

Littler on 2/1/2018

On January 29, 2018, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that sick pay does not constitute wages under the Massachusetts Payment of Wages Law, M.G.L. c. 149, § 148. As a result, employers are not liable under the...more

Vacation Float: Managing (and Recouping) Unearned Vacation Time

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 7/26/2017

Summertime is vacation time. And vacation time means headaches for employers who engage in vacation float. Vacation “float” is the practice of advancing vacation to employees before they actually accrue it under an employer’s...more

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