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Coronavirus Employment Law Update for Contractors (DMV)
Coronavirus Employment Law Update for Contractors (New Jersey)
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Developments in New York State Labor and Employment Law – What You Need to Know in 2020
Employment Law This Week®: EEOC Pay Data Collection Requirement, DOL Overtime Rule, Parental Leave Policies, NYS Paid Family Leave Program
Episode 19: Is This Paid Family Leave’s Moment?
Employment Law This Week: FEHA Expansion, Class Waiver, Employer Conduct Rules, CA’s Paid Family Leave Law
Maryland’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) law will provide up to twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave, with the possibility of an additional twelve weeks of paid parental leave, through a state-run...more
In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly overrode Governor Larry Hogan’s veto to enact the law that created the Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program. ...more
Maryland’s Department of Labor (MDOL) has released proposed regulations to implement the state’s paid family and medical leave insurance (FAMLI) law. The FAMLI law will provide benefits to workers in the state who take leave...more
Maryland’s Time to Care Act (TTCA), enacted more than two years ago and since amended twice, established a paid family and medical leave insurance (FAMLI) program for Maryland employees. The Maryland Department of Labor’s new...more
Earlier this year, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) issued proposed regulations to allow employers to satisfy the state’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and Family Leave Act (NJFLA) poster requirements...more
...On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip James Clyburn, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, and Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone held a press conference on a...more
The District of Columbia Council has passed several pieces of legislation that impose significant obligations upon employers in the District of Columbia. Below is a roundup of recent laws that have been enacted in the...more
On May 24, 2019, the new Department of Paid Family and Medical Leave (the department) held a hearing on the proposed regulations implementing its namesake law. Passed almost a year ago, the Massachusetts Family and Medical...more
Employers in the Commonwealth are fast discovering that the new Massachusetts Paid Family Leave Law, M.G.L c. 175M (“MAPFML”), which begins to phase into effect June 30, 2019, asks much of employers, both administratively...more
On March 29, 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (“DFML”) published updated regulations (“Updated Regulations”) to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (“PFML”) law. Additionally, the...more
Last year, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law what has been referred to as the “grand bargain” legislation. When it was enacted, we covered some of the law’s key provisions that would have a significant...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday evening, the Massachusetts Department of Paid Family and Medical Leave (DFML) published its revised version of the highly anticipated proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) regulations that...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: While we await Friday’s release of the revised, proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) regulations, the Department of Family and Medical Leave posted on its website new toolkits for employers and...more
February 22 was the last day to introduce new legislative proposals for the 2019 California legislative year. A whopping 2,576 bill were introduced before the deadline, making for an extremely busy legislative year ahead....more
The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave recently released draft regulations on paid family and medical leave. The state agency is holding a number of public listening sessions during the month of February,...more
On January 23, 2019, the newly created Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (“DFML” or “Department”) released proposed regulations that provide guidance on the rights and responsibilities of both employers and...more
On January 23, 2019, the newly-created Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (Department) released proposed regulations clarifying the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees under the new...more
The Paid Family Leave Act will provide, when fully implemented, employees in the state of New York with up to 12 weeks of job-protected paid family leave to (1) care for a family member (including a child, parent,...more
On May 24, 2017, the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board (“WCB”) published updated regulations (“Updated Regulations”) to the New York Paid Family Leave Benefits Law (“PFLBL”), which, as we previously reported, becomes...more
The New York Paid Family Leave Law, which becomes effective January 1, 2018, will, when fully phased in, result in eligible employees being entitled to up to 12 weeks of paid family leave when they are out of work for certain...more
On May 24, 2017, the New York Workers’ Compensation Board (the “Board”) issued another set of proposed regulations implementing the New York Paid Family Leave Law (PFL). The initial proposed regulations were published on...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Workers’ Compensation Board issued proposed regulations for New York’s Paid Family Leave Law (“PFL”). The regulations provide much needed guidance on many key areas of the law, including eligibility...more
On February 22, 2017, the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board published proposed regulations (“Proposed Regulations”) to implement the New York Paid Family Leave Benefits Law (“PFLBL”), which goes into effect on...more
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board is out with proposed regulations providing guidance to employers, insurance carriers and employees regarding their rights and responsibilities under New York’s new Paid Family...more
As we previously reported, the New York State Paid Family Leave Law (PFL) will go into effect on January 1, 2018, and will require virtually all private employers in New York to provide paid family leave benefits to eligible...more