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New Paid Leave Requirements for Chicago Employees Starting July 1 – What to Know and How to Prepare

Effective July 1, 2024, employers will need to comply with new paid leave requirements that apply to all Chicago employees (including those who work from home from Chicago). The Chicago City Council passed the Paid Leave and...more

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Chicago Enacts New Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance

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On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council passed the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the Ordinance), which takes effect on December 31, 2023. The Ordinance will replace Chicago’s current Paid...more

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Chicago Votes To Eliminate Tipped Minimum Wage

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On September 14, 2023, the Committee on Workforce Development, a procedural committee under the Chicago City Council, voted in favor of the One Fair Wage Ordinance, legislation that would phase out tipped minimum wages within...more

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West Hollywood’s Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance

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On August 2, 2021, the City Council of West Hollywood approved a Hotel Worker Ordinance, which establishes additional protections for hotel workers in the City of West Hollywood. The ordinance includes provisions on the use...more

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Los Angeles Adopts COVID-19 Right of Recall and COVID-19 Worker Retention Ordinances

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On April 29, 2020, the City of Los Angeles adopted the COVID-19 Right of Recall Ordinance and COVID-19 Worker Retention Ordinance. On May 3, 2020 Mayor Eric Garcetti approved the ordinances. Both ordinances go into effect on...more

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Virginia Opens Door To Collective Bargaining For Public Employees

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The Virginia General Assembly has passed legislation that paves the way for Virginia counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances or resolutions authorizing collective bargaining with labor unions on behalf of public...more

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Chicago’s Fair Workweek Law Mandates Predictive Scheduling

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Chicago’s Fair Workweek Ordinance imposes a sweeping, predictive scheduling obligation on employers to provide employees with advance notice of work schedules and pay employees “predictability pay” for late changes to an...more

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Chicago Passes Ordinance Requiring Employers to Provide Predictive Scheduling for Certain Industries

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In the most expansive predictive scheduling law in the country to date, Chicago City officials passed the “Fair Workweek Ordinance” on July 24, 2019, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot has indicated she would quickly sign the...more

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Chicago Gets Its Fair Workweek: City Council Unanimously Passes Ordinance

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City Council approved the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance by unanimous vote on July 24, 2019. This past May marked the third time such an ordinance was proposed in City Council, and the language ultimately approved by City...more

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Which Are They? Independent Contractors Or Employees? Navigating The Conflicts Between State And Federal Law

UberX and UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Employees for Purposes of the NLRA - According to the NLRB General Counsel’s Division of Advice (GC), Uber’s UberX and UberBLACK drivers are independent contractors exempt from the...more

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Local Government Units Cannot Adopt Right-to-Work Ordinances

Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act specifically authorizes state governments to adopt right-to-work statutes that prohibit compulsory union membership as a condition of employment. Two weeks ago, the Seventh...more

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Lessons From The Emerald City: Does Seattle’s New Domestic Worker Standards Board Indicate A Move Towards European Industry-Wide...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Seattle has long been at the forefront of progressive labor policies. Take, for example, its 2014 Minimum Wage Ordinance, which made it the first major city in the nation to increase wages to $15 an hour. ...more

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“Hands Off, Pants On” When Guests Sexually Harass Your Hotel Employees

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In an April 2016 survey of 400 Chicago-area women working at hotels, nearly 50 percent indicated that they have had a guest answer the door naked, expose themselves, or were otherwise flashed. Worse yet, 1 in 10 said they had...more

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The Federal Antitrust and Labor Law Double Bind: The Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Challenge to Seattle’s Ordinance...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On Monday, February 5, 2018, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit challenging the City of Seattle’s ordinance allowing independent-contractor drivers to engage in collective bargaining was before the U.S....more

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Paid Sick Leave Laws are Sweeping the Country: Are You in Compliance?

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Paid sick leave, like paid family leave, is one example of an employment law issue where states are acting without waiting for the federal government. While former President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing paid...more

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New Year’s Surprise: Seattle Changes Paid Sick Leave Law At Last Minute

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Washington employers are already under the gun to develop policies and practices to meet the requirements of the state’s new paid sick law that takes effect on January 1, 2018. Those with multiple Washington locations have...more

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Seattle Ordinance Allowing Ride-Sharing Drivers To Unionize Temporarily Blocked By Ninth Circuit

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked enforcement of the City of Seattle’s Ordinance 124968, which grants certain collective bargaining rights to independent contractors who drive for ride-sharing...more

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San Jose’s Opportunity to Work Ordinance: New Peculiarity for Employers

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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

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Federal Appeals Court Rules Counties May Enact Right To Work Laws

The term “right to work state” is fairly well known. After all, 25 of the United States are “right to work states,” states which have enacted laws prohibiting compulsory unionism as part of a collective bargaining agreement....more

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Caught at the Red Light: Challenge to Ordinance Granting On-Demand Drivers the Right to Bargain Collectively is Brought to a...

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By: Alison Loomis, Esq. Seyfarth Synopsis: A challenge to Seattle’s first-of-its-kind ordinance, which established the right for on-demand drivers to collectively bargain, was dismissed by a Washington federal court on the...more

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New California Law Impacting Change in Control of Grocery Stores

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The new law, Assembly Bill 359, will require that, upon a “change in control” of a “grocery establishment,” the seller must prepare a list of “specified eligible grocery workers” for a successor grocery employer, which would...more

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Update: Amendments to San Francisco Retail Workers Bill of Rights Take Effect

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Less than one week after the San Francisco Retail Workers Bill of Rights became effective, it was amended in several ways that impact employers’ compliance obligations going forward....more

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Changes to the S.F. Formula Retail Employee Rights Ordinances

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As our loyal CalPecs blog readers know, in November 2014, San Francisco passed two ordinances—“Hours and Retention Protections for Formula Retail Employees” and “Fair Scheduling and Treatment of Formula Retail...more

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Trends in New Jersey Employment Law - October 2014

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Four More New Jersey Cities Enact Sick Leave Laws - Four New Jersey municipalities—Passaic, Paterson, Irvington, and East Orange—recently enacted ordinances requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their...more

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New York City Passes Earned Sick Time Act

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New York City has become the latest U.S. city to require paid sick leave for many local private sector employees. On May 8, 2013, the New York City Council passed the Earned Sick Time Act by a 45-3 vote....more

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