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Michigan Employers Must Increase Sick Time and Minimum Wage by February 21, 2025

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The game of legal whiplash is over – Michigan employers (and employment lawyers) now know that the Earned Sick Time Act and Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act, as originally proposed, will go into effect on February 21,...more

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New Guidance Permits Oregon Employers to Rescind Previously Protected Unpaid Family and Medical Leave Effective July 1, 2024

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Oregon’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program (“Paid Leave Oregon”) generally provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of paid time off for leave that qualifies as family, medical, or safe leave. Since Paid...more

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New York City’s Latest Amendments on Earned Sick and Safe Time Provides a Private Right of Action Including Compensatory Damages,...

Effective March 20, 2024, the New York City Earned Sick and Safe Time Act (ESSTA) creates a private cause of action for alleged statutory violations. Employers may now face potential civil and/or class actions, in addition to...more

Miller Nash LLP

[Webinar] Embracing Change: A Guide to Oregon's Evolving Leave Laws Landscape - May 29th, 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

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Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) continues to shape the landscape of Oregon employment benefits since going into effect on September 3, 2023, and employers have faced ongoing challenges in navigating its complexities. In addition, the...more

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Maryland Law Provides Protected Organ and Bone Marrow Donation Leave – Do Your Policies to Comply?

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Effective October 1, 2019, employers with 15 or more employees in Maryland must provide eligible employees with unpaid leave to serve as organ or bone marrow donors. Leave provided under the law is separate from, and cannot...more

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You Can Now Get Privately Sued for Failing to Provide NYC Safe and Sick Leave

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Effective March 20, employees in New York City can bring private actions against their employers for violations of the city’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, NYC Admin. Code § 20-911 et seq. ...more

Fisher Phillips

Governor Signs Sweeping Changes to Untangle Oregon’s Jumbled Leave Laws: Key Takeaways and a 5-Step Action Plan for Employers

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Governor Kotek signed a bill into law today harmonizing Oregon’s overlapping and confusing set of leave laws. The new framework distinguishes different types of leave events under the state’s various laws and stops those...more

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Additional Expansions of Illinois Employee Leave Rights

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With Illinois implementing mandatory paid leave for all workers (see our commentary on that requirement here), not to mention Chicago’s parallel ordinance and the eleventh-hour postponement thereof, it is no wonder that...more

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Recent developments on childcare leave in South Korea

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Recent regulatory changes and a Korean Supreme Court decision have made childcare leave and flexible working hours more attractive and more available to employees with young children....more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Payment of Wages to Private-Sector Employees in Israel

The payment of wages to private-sector employees in Israel who were absent from work due to the war was made contingent upon the signing of a collective bargaining agreement and the issuance of an extension order applying its...more

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The New Carer’s Leave Entitlement and What it Means for Employers in Great Britain

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As flagged in our legal roundup article for 2024, employees in England, Scotland and Wales will have a statutory entitlement to take one week of unpaid carer’s leave from April 6, 2024 onwards....more

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Here Are the Top 10 New Laws Coming Soon to California Workplaces and 5 Key Bills the Governor Surprisingly Vetoed

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California employers know that the new year inevitably brings new workplace laws that are finalized at the end of the state’s legislative session in the fall. This year, state lawmakers considered over 2,700 bills – the most...more

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Avalanche Alert: Top 10 California Employment Bills To Watch as Legislative Session Wraps Up

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California employers will want to sit down, grab a cup of coffee, and prepare themselves for the avalanche on new employment laws that may soon be coming their way. The state Legislature just completed its work for 2023 in a...more

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Dear Littler: What Do We Need to Know about School-Activity Leave Laws?

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Dear Littler, Our company is expanding and we are concerned about compliance with all of the various state leave laws.  We think we’re on top of most of them, but we understand that some states have laws requiring leave...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

As School Bells Ring, Employers Should Review School-Related Activities Leave Policies

Another school year is upon us, which means employers around the country should study up on school-related activities leave policies. While there is no federal law mandating that employers give employees time-off to attend...more

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Employers Need to be Aware of New Illinois Protections for Employee Leave

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The new Illinois Child Extended Bereavement Leave Act (CEBLA) became law on August 4, 2023, and will be effective on January 1, 2024. CEBLA requires covered Illinois employers to provide additional unpaid leave to employees...more

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Illinois Expands Paid and Unpaid Leave Time

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Governor JB Pritzker has dedicated his administration to expanding the rights and protections of employees. Many of these changes place significant compliance requirements on employers, and being non-compliant risks hefty...more

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The 6th Circuit Clarifies Retaliation Under the FMLA

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On January 25, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that an employee’s notice of need for leave, regardless of whether the employee was ultimately entitled to the leave, was protected conduct...more

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Illinois Amends Family Bereavement Leave Act to Provide Extended Child Bereavement Leave

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Illinois passed a new law that will extend the amount of unpaid leave that employees are entitled to for certain categories of child bereavement. The Child Extended Bereavement Leave Act (CEBLA), which was signed into law by...more

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Amended VESSA Provides Illinois Employees Time Off for Additional Reasons

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Amendments to the Illinois Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) expand leave available to Illinois employees grieving a family member’s death arising from a crime of violence. VESSA applies to all Illinois...more

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Governor Evers’s Spending Plan Proposes Paid Family and Medical Leave in Wisconsin

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As part of his two-year spending plan, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has proposed mandating 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for many private and public sector workers by January 1, 2025. This proposal, if passed,...more

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DOL Clarifies How Holidays Impact Partial Weeks Taken Under FMLA

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On May 30, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) released an opinion letter clarifying how holidays impact FMLA. Whether the holiday time counts against FMLA depends on two factors: 1.Whether the employee took a partial week...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Not half bad: New Virginia employment laws to take effect July 1

The Virginia General Assembly has ended its 2023 legislative session, and it was a quieter year than some in the past. The new legislation that has been signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and that affects employers is...more

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Virginia General Assembly 2023 Employment Law Roundup

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The Virginia General Assembly’s 2023 legislative session concluded with Gov. Glenn Youngkin signing 738 bills into law and amending another 78. With a divided government characterized by Republican control of the governor’s...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

It’s Time for Employers to Review Military Leave Policies

The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) applies to all private employers in the U.S., regardless of size, and requires them to provide unpaid leave for up to five years for certain absences...more

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