California's New COVID-19 Sick Leave Mandate: What Employers Need to Know
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The Maryland General Assembly recently adjourned for the year, but not before legislators enacted changes to Maryland employment law. The new compliance obligations required by these changes are summarized below...more
Employers across the country have grappled with the requirements of Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), since it went into effect on January 1, 2021. The act was the only one of its kind at the time, and has...more
Passed in 2018, the District of Columbia’s Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act’s (TWWFA) mandatory sexual harassment training provisions are now in effect. Employers with workers for whom an employer takes a tip credit...more
Amendments to Chicago Ordinance Impose Additional Obligations Relating to the Prevention of Sexual Harassment - As of July 1, 2022, amendments to the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance went into effect, requiring employers...more
Effective August 1, 2021, the Louisiana Employment Discrimination Law was amended to expressly require Louisiana employers with more than 25 employees to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with limitations arising...more
The City of Chicago has amended its Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), providing news reasons for taking paid sick leave under the Ordinance, and adding a new remedy for Chicago employees alleging...more
Just days before New York’s statewide paid sick leave law (NYPSL) takes effect on September 30, the New York City council passed a suite of amendments to NYC’s existing Earned Safe and Sick Leave Law (ESSL), in part aligning...more
Recent amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act (IHRA) broaden employee rights and impose new, immediate notice requirements on employers. The amendments are found in Public Acts 100-0588 and 100-1066, which Governor...more
On July 26, the San Diego City Council ratified a minimum wage and sick pay ordinance approved by voters on June 7. Effective as of July 11, the ordinance imposes a citywide minimum wage rate and also obligates businesses to...more
On July 1, 2016, the Kansas concealed carry law will change. A public employer may no longer prohibit an employee from carrying a concealed handgun on the job. In addition, a municipality must now have adequate postings,...more
The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations has released the poster employers are required to display under the new amendments to Philadelphia’s “ban the box” law, the Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards Act. The...more
California employers with at least 5 employees, take note! Effective April 1, 2016, the California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) will be amended and employers will be required to post a new Pregnancy Disability...more
Employers should review the amendments, which address some of the challenges for implementing the sick leave law that took effect July 1. After extensive legislative negotiation, the California State Legislature passed...more
With the enactment of the amendments to the Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Act, the Connecticut Department of Labor issued an updated guidance, along with an updated poster, for employers. The amendments, which became...more
On February 26, 2014, the Amended DC Wage Theft Prevention Act (the “Act”) goes into effect and imposes several new obligations on Washington, DC employers. The Act makes sweeping changes to notice and recordkeeping...more