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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your July To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 6/30/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. To ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan for...more

Update on Missouri’s Proposition A: Status of Earned Paid Sick Time Law

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/15/2025

Employers must provide notice of Missouri’s new earned paid sick time (PST) requirements no later than April 15, 2025—ahead of the May 1, 2025, effective date of the state’s new PST law, or Proposition A, passed by voters in...more

New and Updated State Sick Leave Laws in 2025

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 12/6/2024

Over the past decade, states and localities have adopted sick leave laws and ordinances, and the number of sick leave laws has increased every year. The year 2025 will be no exception, as three states — Alaska, Missouri and...more

Many New Laws for the Land of Many Lakes: What Minnesota Employers Need to Know

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/11/2024

Lawmakers in the Land of 10,000 Lakes kept busy this year, enacting and amending a variety of laws affecting Minnesota employers, some of which are already in effect....more

Minnesota’s New Paid Family and Medical Leave Law

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 7/16/2024

On May 25, 2023, Gov. Tim Walz signed new legislation establishing Minnesota’s state-run family and medical leave program (the “Paid Leave Program”), and guaranteeing almost all Minnesota employees the right to paid family...more

Unpacking California’s 2024 Employment Laws: Key Changes Employers Need to Know

Troutman Pepper Locke on 12/14/2023

California enacted several new employment laws for 2024, summarized below, including expanded paid sick leave, leave for reproductive loss, protections for employee cannabis use, additional noncompete enforcement limitations,...more

Illinois’ New Paid Leave Law: What Employers Need to Know

McDermott Will & Schulte on 3/23/2023

On March 13, 2023, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (PLAWA) into law, guaranteeing all workers in the state of Illinois 40 hours of paid time off each year for any reason. The law goes...more

Paid Leave for Nearly All Illinois Employees Coming Soon

Cooley LLP on 3/16/2023

Paid leave for any reason is coming to Illinois. On March 13, 2023, Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (Paid Leave Act), which requires employers to provide up to 40 hours of paid leave to nearly all...more

The New 2022 California Supplemental COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave: Answers to Employer Questions

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP on 2/11/2022

California employers with 26 or more employees must now prepare to comply with a new supplemental COVID-19 paid sick leave law (“2022 COVID-SPSL”). ...more

Paid Leave and Coronavirus — Part 30: Paid Leave For COVID-19 Vaccines and “Kin Care” Come to Nevada

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/25/2021

Seyfarth Synopsis: Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak recently signed into law Senate Bill 209 (“SB209”) and Assembly Bill 190 (“AB190”). SB209 requires private employers to provide employees with up to four hours of paid leave...more

Massachusetts Becomes Latest State to Enact COVID-19 Sick Leave

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/11/2021

On May 28, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House Bill 3702—An Act Providing for Massachusetts COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave (“Act”)—into law after initially vetoing a similar bill in early April 2021....more

Virginia Enacts New Paid Sick Leave Law for Home Health Workers

Littler on 4/9/2021

Given the current political trifecta (where democrats control both houses of the state legislature and the governorship), paid sick leave proponents had high hopes that Virginia would follow other states’ lead and pass...more

California Enacts (Retroactive) 2021 Emergency Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Law

Littler on 3/22/2021

On March 19, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 95, which creates new Labor Code section 248.2 and mandates that employers provide employees with supplemental paid sick leave (SPSL) for various...more

Is Foresight 2020? Employers Confront New Laws Taking Effect in the New Year

Littler on 11/14/2019

As the year draws to a close, employers are assessing the next wave of labor and employment laws and regulations they will face in 2020 and beyond. Most new laws taking effect at the end of 2019 and throughout 2020 are at the...more

If Pain, Yes Gain—Part 57: Paid Sick Leave Bug Spreads To Westchester County, NY

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 11/9/2018

Seyfarth Synopsis: Last month, Westchester County became the second New York State municipality - and first county - to pass a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance. The ordinance is expected to take effect on or about March...more

New Jersey Passes Paid Sick Leave Law

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/25/2018

A paid sick leave statute has been floating around the New Jersey Legislature for several years, but never gained enough traction to become law ... until now. On April 12, the NJ legislature passed a mandatory Paid Sick...more

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