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OK at Work: Navigating Snow Days, Office Closures, and Remote Work Planning
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Updated Leave Laws Employers Need to be Aware of for 2025
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Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
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The Rhode Island General Assembly recently enacted several amendments to existing employment laws that will impact employers immediately and into 2026. These changes include expanded anti-discrimination protections, new...more
Last month, New Jersey’s Pay and Benefit Transparency Act (NJPBTA) officially took effect, placing new compensation disclosure criteria on employers in the state, and providing jobseekers access to important information that...more
New Law Now In Effect as of June 1, 2025 - On June 1, 2025, New Jersey joined a growing list of states and localities, including New York State and New York City, requiring disclosure of salary ranges in job descriptions. ...more
In the November 2024 election, Nebraska voters passed Initiative 436, also known as the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplace Act. This law mandates paid sick leave for most employees in the state and takes effect October...more
As the new year approaches, several critical legislative changes in employment law will take effect on January 1, 2025, unless specified otherwise. California employers face a dynamic regulatory landscape in 2025, with...more
On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council passed the Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (Ordinance). This new Ordinance replaces the prior Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. The Ordinance provides covered...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
Los Angeles retail businesses must now comply with a new ordinance that promotes predictable work hours for employees. On April 1, 2023, the Los Angeles Fair Work Week Ordinance went into effect, which applies to retail...more
On January 10, 2023, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock approved an ordinance (File No. 22-1614) passed by the Denver City Council that will provide new avenues for workers in the City and County of Denver to pursue claims for wage...more
The rise of artificial intelligence and other computer-based, data-driven decisions may seem attractive to employers looking to parse a deep pool of qualified candidates. But concerns that biases may affect these automated...more
On January 20, 2020, Governor Murphy signed into law a series of legislative packages aimed at combating worker misclassification and exploitation. These bills will bolster an already-aggressive state department of labor that...more
On January 21, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill 3170 (the “amendments” or “NJ WARN Act”) into law making New Jersey the first state in the nation to require severance pay for mass layoffs. The law,...more
January 2020 was a busy month for New Jersey’s executive branch. Governor Phil Murphy signed into law at least five workplace-related bills, one of which revised the New Jersey mini-WARN Act, one granting state regulators...more
UPDATE: On January 21, 2020, the Governor of New Jersey signed Senate Bill 3170 into law, pushing state law far past the corresponding federal requirements of the WARN Act. Governor Phil Murphy issued an omnibus press release...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Monday, January 13, 2020, the New Jersey state legislature passed Senate Bill 3170 which, if signed by the Governor, would result in sweeping changes to what was once a mass layoff notification statute...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
February 16 was the deadline to introduce new bills in the California Legislature. By that date, nearly 2,200 bills were introduced. While that may seem like a staggering amount of legislative proposals (especially for a...more
On February 15, 2017, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she will not veto the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 (Bill 21-415) (“Act”), previously passed by the D.C. Council on December 22, 2016....more
Another city has added to the burdens of doing business in California by passing its own paid sick leave and minimum wage requirements not always consistent with state law. On June 7, 2016, voters approved an ordinance...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On November 8, 2016, San Jose voters approved the most recent local effort to dictate employment scheduling practices. Beginning in March 2017, San Jose employers must offer existing part-time employees...more
New York will increase its minimum wage to $15.00 an hour in gradual increases, beginning December 31, 2016. In keeping with the wave of new legislation in states and cities across the country, New York also passed the Paid...more