Wage and Hour, Employer Liability Issues, Disability Benefits

End of NY Legislative Session Leaves Employers Watching Key Workplace Bills

Fisher Phillips on 7/3/2025

New York’s two-year 2025-2026 legislative session hit its midpoint in June, with lawmakers wrapping up the first year by passing a slew of workplace-related bills that now await action from Governor Hochul. As federal labor...more

Getting to Work: Latest Employment & Labor Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly (January 31st Public Hearing)

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 1/31/2023

On January 4, 2023, the 2023 session of the Connecticut General Assembly began. The session is scheduled to adjourn on June 7, 2023. Numerous proposed bills affecting Connecticut employers and employees will be unleashed...more

Pennsylvania and New Jersey Release 2023 Average Weekly Wage Rates

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 1/6/2023

New Jersey and Pennsylvania have released 2023 workers' compensation temporary total disability benefit rates based on the statewide average weekly wage....more

Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Part 2: Key Differences in the Revised Regulations

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 4/12/2019

In our last blog post on Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (“MAPFML”), we reviewed the Department of Family and Medical Leave’s (the “Department”) draft regulations published in January 2019 and outlined some of the...more

U.K. Employment Law Update: Accrued Holidays, Disability Benefits and Age Discrimination

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 3/3/2019

If Accrued Holidays Are Not Used, Will They Be Lost? In the cases of Kreuziger v Berlin (C-619/16) EU:C:2018:872 and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften eV v Shimizu (C-684/16) EU:C:2018:874, the...more

More Family Time and Money: New Jersey Expands its Family Leave Entitlements

Littler on 2/27/2019

Declaring it the “most expansive paid family leave time and benefits in the nation,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill (AB) 3975 into law on February 19, 2019....more

Top 10 Trends Facing California Employers in 2017

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/11/2017

With a very Democratic state legislature that is well positioned to offset a very Republican White House, the following are the top 10 trends I saw in my practice from 2016 that inform what California employers can expect in...more

New York Budget Deal Will Bring $15 Minimum Wage and Broad Paid Leave Legislation

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/18/2016

On April 4, 2016, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to phase in an increased minimum wage and guarantee paid family leave to all eligible employees throughout New York State. The legislation was part of the...more

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