Wage and Hour, Vacation Pay, Human Resources Professionals

Your Employees Are Embracing “Loud Vacationing” And So Can You: 7 Tips For Building Supportive PTO Policies

Fisher Phillips on 6/9/2025

The trend for workers to hide their time off from their managers – known as “quiet vacationing” – has taken a sharp turn. Employees are now “loud vacationing” by openly sharing their travel plans and using their paid time off...more

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

Colorado FAMLI Paid Leave Update

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 9/21/2022

COLORADO FAMILY, MEDICAL AND SAFE LEAVE LAW REQUIRES EMPLOYER ACTION BY BEFORE JAN. 1, 2023 - Brownstein has previously previewed the upcoming drastic change in Colorado paid leave law under the Family and Medical Leave...more

Court of Appeal Clarifies the Doctrine of Common Employer Liability, Holds Director Personally Liable

Bennett Jones LLP on 6/29/2021

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently clarified that common employer liability on an interrelated corporation requires objective evidence of an intention to create an employer/employee relationship between the employee and the...more

Colorado Supreme Court: Employers Must Pay Out Earned Vacation Upon Separation

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 6/17/2021

Employers operating in Colorado gained clarity from the Colorado Supreme Court on a closely watched state wage and hour law issue—earned vacation pay must be paid out upon separation from employment, notwithstanding any...more

Miss Mannerly Answers Your Summer HR questions

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 6/21/2019

Avoid a seasonal faux pas! Dear Miss Mannerly: My office is business casual -- until June. Even though we don't have a lax summer dress code, many of our employees just "assume" they can dress like hooligans. We have all...more