Wage and Hour, Employment Policies, Covered Employees

Major Overhaul of the NY Healthy Terminals Act Signed Into Law: What Employers Need to Know Before January 1, 2026

Fisher Phillips on 5/28/2025

As part of the 2025-26 budget package signed by Governor Hochul on May 9, New York overhauled its Healthy Terminals Act (HTA) to reshape airport wage and benefit obligations to mirror New Jersey’s version of the law. These...more

Additional Employer Obligations Take Effect as DC Paid Family Leave Program Inches Closer to July 2020 Benefit Launch Date

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/27/2020

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

Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act Will (Finally) Take Effect – Prepare for the Ides of March

Littler on 12/23/2019

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

Just as Its Earned Sick Leave Law Goes into Effect, Westchester County Enacts Another Paid Leave Law

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/17/2019

On April 23, 2019, the Board of Legislators of Westchester County, New York, adopted a new paid leave benefit for most employees in the county. Beginning October 30, 2019, the Safe Time Leave Law (“Law” or “Ordinance”) will...more

Earned Sick Leave in Westchester County, NY: What Employers Need to Know

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/15/2019

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 New Paid Sick Leave Law: What Employers Need to Know

Fisher Phillips on 5/3/2018

New Jersey has now become the tenth state to enact a statewide mandatory paid sick leave law. The New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act was signed into law today by Governor Phil Murphy and will go into effect on October 29, 2018....more