The City of Philadelphia maintains several employment-specific ordinances that enhance preexisting state and federal employee protections or create new employment rights. Some of these apply even if the employer has only one...more
On June 2, 2023, Governor Jared Polis signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 23-017, which expands the qualifying reasons an employee may take leave under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA)....more
Evidently accepting Winston Churchill’s advice that one should never let a good crisis go to waste, the Colorado General Assembly passed, and Governor Polis has signed, two laws that, on their face, appear designed to address...more
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo recently signed into law the Healthy and Safe Families and Workplaces Act (“Act”), which will require Rhode Island employers with 18 or more employees to provide paid sick and safe leave...more
From California to Connecticut, and places in between, the reach of paid sick leave laws is spreading rapidly. Currently, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington D.C. have state- (or district-) wide laws...more
On September 8, 2015, President Obama signed an Executive Order that will require companies that contract with the federal government to provide paid sick leave to their employees. The Order will become effective in 2017....more
The Act was amended on July 13, 2015 to address various accrual provisions and to clarify how employees were to be paid when using accrued sick leave. One issue that was not addressed by the amendments was the amount of sick...more
President Obama signed an Executive Order on September 7, 2015, requiring that Federal contractors provide at least seven days of paid sick leave per year to employees working on Federal contracts and subcontracts that are...more
The California Legislature has been pretty busy this year introducing various bills that will affect certain California employers. Below is a brief summary of two bills recently signed by the Governor – one that amends the...more
California’s Paid Sick Leave Law, AB 304, or the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 as it is officially known, is a hot topic that we have blogged about a number of times. Eligible employees began accruing paid...more
As of July 1, 2015, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 requires California employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to their employees, including all full-time, part-time, temporary, migrant and...more
On February 12, 2015, the Philadelphia City Council passed the “Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces” Ordinance (“Ordinance”), requiring private employers with 10 or more employees in the city of Philadelphia to provide...more
Following a number of other localities, the City of Philadelphia has enacted the Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces law requiring certain employers located in the city to provide employees with up to 40 hours of paid...more
Starting July 1, 2015, California will join numerous other states in requiring employers provide employees with paid sick leave pursuant to the Health Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014....more
On Wednesday, Sept. 10th, Governor Jerry Brown signed the paid sick leave bill (Assembly Bill 1522) into law. This means that, effective July 1, 2015, California employers, regardless of size, must provide most employees paid...more
California lawmakers voted 52-25 to pass Assembly Bill 1522. Written by Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), the bill would entitle most employees in California three days of paid sick leave to care for themselves, or for a family...more
On March 20, 2013, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) reintroduced the Healthy Families Act (“the Act”) to the United States Senate (S. 631) and House of Representative (bill number not yet...more
This past Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Portland, Oregon, became the latest municipality to pass a law requiring employers to provide paid sick leave for employees working as few as 240 hours per year. Portland's Earned Sick...more