Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Leave, Penalties

If Pain, Yes Gain – Part 132: NYC Amends Earned Safe and Sick Time Rules to Add Detailed Paid Prenatal Leave Requirements

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/9/2025

As previously reported, the New York State Paid Prenatal Leave entitlement went into effect as part of Section 196-B of the New York Labor Law (i.e., the New York State Paid Sick Leave Law) on January 1, 2025....more

City of Chicago Expands Paid Leave for Employees in New Ordinance

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/15/2023

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

Chicago Passes Sweeping Paid Leave Ordinance

Perkins Coie on 11/15/2023

The city of Chicago approved the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the ordinance) on November 9, 2023, providing all employees working in the city with up to five annual days of paid leave that can be...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

Maine Becomes First State to Require Paid Leave for Any Reason

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 5/30/2019

Maine’s Governor Janet Mills has signed into law an Act Authorizing Earned Employee Leave (the “Act”), which will require covered employers to provide employees with up to 40 hours of paid personal leave per calendar year....more

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Issues Proposed Regulations For the New Jersey Sick Leave Act

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/23/2018

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

India Makes Significant Changes to Maternity Benefit Entitlements

Fisher Phillips on 8/10/2017

This year, India became one of the most generous providers of maternity benefits in the world when it extended the period of maternity leave available to eligible working mothers from twelve (12) weeks to twenty-six (26)...more

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