Summer Strategies for Work Success
Crafting Effective Flexible Leave Policies for Employers
Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
(Podcast) California Employment News: SB616 – Changes to Paid Sick Leave Law for 2024
Hot Spots in Employment Law 2022
Discussion on Legal and Practical Issues
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - 2023 Benefits Forecast with Mercer
Vaccine Mandate Requirement, First COVID-19 Remote Work Suit, Whistleblower Awards Top $1 Billion - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: States Adjust COVID-19 Regulations and OSHA ETS Released - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Obama-Era Approach, Pro-Union Push, and States Split on Vaccination Policies - Employment Law This Week®
COVID-19 Vaccine News - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday
Reasonable minds can differ
Arizona law allows workers paid time off to vote on Election Day
#WorkforceWednesday: Sick Leave in New York, California Law Update, and Oregon’s Workplace Fairness Act Takes Effect
When Sick Leave Runs Out—Managing Employee Absences and Balancing Legal Obligations
Employment Law Now IV-77- Breaking: Federal Judge Invalidates Portions of the DOL’s FFCRA Regulations
How School Reopening Plans May Affect Paid Leave for Working Parents and Employers by Judy Garner
COVID-19 Updates: Arizona Employment Law Issues
Webinar | Understanding the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Employment Law Now IV-58- Breaking: New Federal Coronavirus Legislation
Philadelphia employers now face more investigations and stiffer punishment under a new law the mayor approved last week. The POWER Act, signed on May 27 and taking effect immediately, adds sweeping worker protections...more
Employers must provide current employees with written notice of the 2025 contribution rates for the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program. Employees must receive notice of the 2025 contribution rates on...more
Employers with employees, including remote workers, who live or work in more than one state have likely already faced the challenge of determining what employment laws apply, the work they apply to, and when....more
The City of Chicago recently enacted a new Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave ordinance. Though initially slated to go into effect December 31, 2023, on December 13, 2023, the Chicago City Council voted to amend the...more
On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council adopted the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance, expanding the current Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance to provide eligible employees with the ability to...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
As many readers know, on May 28, 2021, An Act Providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave was passed. The Act creates a fund for the Commonwealth to reimburse eligible employers who provide employees with...more
As discussed in our March 24, 2021 Alert, California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill No. 95 (SB 95) which retroactively extends and expands COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave (CSPSL) through September 30,...more
Effective March 12, 2021, all New York State employers are required to provide employees with paid time off (PTO) to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the employee’s regular rate of pay. Employees may take up to four hours per...more
Every HR manager has had that moment where they’re trying to decide whether or not to waive a notice period for an employee who is terminating. Many also have a trickle of doubt about the repercussions waiving the notice...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The next round of employer obligations - primarily posting and notice requirements - for DC Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) takes effect on February 1, 2020. Therefore, covered employers need to act now to meet...more
After more than a four-year delay, the City of Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Days Act (“the Ordinance”) will go into effect on March 15, 2020. The city passed the Ordinance in August 2015, but its authority to pass such a law was...more
Nevada employers will soon have a very important New Year’s resolution to complete: complying with the state’s first-ever paid leave law. Effective January 1, 2020, all private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada...more
As we previously reported, Nevada has enacted a personal leave law, which, effective January 1, 2020, will require private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada to provide certain employees working in the state with...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last month, Bernalillo County, NM became the first local jurisdiction to enact a mandatory paid time off ordinance. The Ordinance, which goes into effect on July 1, 2020, requires covered employers located...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier yesterday, the Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) issued its final regulations for the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Law. ...more
On April 24, 2019, Dallas became the latest and third Texas city to pass an Ordinance (“Law”) requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees. The Law is scheduled to take effect on August 1, 2019,...more
Despite broad-based support, the Texas Legislature failed to pass a law preempting the type of paid sick leave ordinances enacted in Austin, San Antonio, and most recently Dallas before the end of its regular session on May...more
On May 28, 2019, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed “An Act Authorizing Earned Employee Leave” (“Law”), which requires private employers to provide paid leave to their employees. Scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2021,...more
Covered Employees and Use of Leave Effective October 30, 2019, Westchester County, NY employers will be required to provide paid leave to employees who are victims of domestic violence or human trafficking. Leave under the...more
The City of Dallas recently passed an ordinance requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to workers. Starting August 1, 2019, employers with more than five employees who perform at least 80 hours of work in a year in...more
Taking a page out of New York City’s book to address the estimated 36 percent of workers in Westchester County, New York, who lack paid sick leave benefits, in October 2018 the Westchester County Board of Legislators passed...more
New Jersey’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJ DOL) created a webpage concerning the state’s paid sick and safe time law, which took effect on October 29, 2018. ...more
As detailed previously, the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act (the “Act”), goes into effect October 29, 2018. In general, the Act allows New Jersey employees to accrue one (1) hour of sick leave time per thirty (30) hours...more