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Are You Feeling Sick? New York City Passes a New Sick Leave Law

by Jill Lowell, Jean Schmidt, Terri Solomon | Littler on 5/13/2013

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. That is what the New York City Council (the Council) has done since 2009. And after four years, the result is a controversial sick leave law, the Earned Sick Time Act (the...more

Legal Alert: New York City Council Approves Sick Leave Law

by FordHarrison on 5/10/2013

The New York City Council has passed a law that will require businesses to provide either paid or unpaid sick leave (depending on the size of the employer) beginning April 1, 2014. The City Council passed the New York City...more

N.Y. Legislature Introduces Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence

by Lisa Lewis | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/26/2013

The N.Y. State Senate and Assembly recently introduced “competing” bills both targeting increased employment protections for victims of domestic violence. The bills each provide various measures of job security for employees...more

Portland, Oregon, Considering Paid Sick Leave For Employees

by Tracy Morley | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 1/31/2013

Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz released a proposed ordinance that, if passed, would require employers with six or more employees to provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per year. Employers with five or fewer...more

Denial Of Access To Donated Sick Leave Program Is Not A Failure To Accommodate, New Jersey Appellate Division Holds

by Mark Diana, Evan J. Shenkman | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/14/2012

In Queen v. City of Bridgeton, the Appellate Division held that an employer with no legal duty to provide paid leave does not violate the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) for denying an employee’s request for the...more

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Are You Feeling Sick? New York City Passes a New Sick Leave Law

Legal Alert: New York City Council Approves Sick Leave Law

N.Y. Legislature Introduces Protections for Victims of Domestic Violence

Portland, Oregon, Considering Paid Sick Leave For Employees

Denial Of Access To Donated Sick Leave Program Is Not A Failure To Accommodate, New Jersey Appellate Division Holds

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