Local Ordinance, New Regulations, Employee Rights

Pittsburgh Amends Paid Sick Days Act to Provide Greater Benefits for Employees

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 7/8/2025

In June 2025, the Pittsburgh City Council approved an ordinance that amends the Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act (“PSDA”) to significantly increase the number of hours of paid sick leave employers must provide to eligible...more

Chicago’s Annual Employment Law Changes Are Coming July 1 — Are You Ready?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/25/2025

Effective July 1, 2025, updates to several key Chicago employment laws go into effect, including (1) updates to the Chicago Fair Workweek employee coverage thresholds; (2) updates to the City’s minimum wage; and (3) new...more

Philadelphia POWER Act Affects Paid Sick Leave Obligations

Littler on 6/10/2025

On May 27, 2025, the mayor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania signed into law File # 250065, which took effect immediately. Although the ordinance amended a variety of local employment standards, our focus is their impact on the...more

Fair Work Week Ordinance: Cruel Summer For LA County Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/19/2024

Seyfarth Synopsis: Are you ready for it? The record-smashing icon, Taylor Swift, may have taken her tour to Europe, but that doesn’t stop new laws from cropping up back home. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed...more

NYC Employers Must Provide Paid COVID-19 Child Vaccination Leave

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 12/23/2021

The New York City Council approved a bill that amends the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to require employers to provide paid COVID-19 child vaccination leave. Without signature from Mayor Bill de Blasio, the bill...more

Oregon Enacts State-Wide Paid Employee Sick Leave Which (Mostly) Replaces Local Ordinances in Portland and Eugene

Stoel Rives LLP on 7/2/2015

Governor Kate Brown signed into law the new Oregon Paid Sick Leave (“OPSL”) law enacted by the Legislature on June 12. The new law becomes effective January 1, 2016. Oregon is the fourth state to enact a state-wide paid sick...more

Four More New Jersey Cities Enact Sick Leave Laws

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 10/20/2014

Four New Jersey municipalities—Passaic, Paterson, Irvington, and East Orange—recently enacted ordinances requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees....more

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