As we previously reported, New York was one of the first states to require employers to provide paid COVID-19 vaccination leave for public and private employees. On November 23, 2021, the New York City Council approved a...more
On August 23, 2021, the District of Columbia (“D.C.”) Council enacted the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2021 (D.C. Act 24-159), an omnibus bill that, at Title IV, Subtitle G, includes the “Universal Paid...more
On January 20, 2021, the New York State Department of Labor (“NY DOL”) issued another round of guidance (“Guidance”) on the use of COVID-19 sick leave under the New York State COVID-19 Sick Leave Law (“Law”). Supplementing...more
Proposed Paid Sick Leave Law Regulations -
As we previously reported, New York State’s Paid Sick Leave Law (“PSLL”) went into effect on September 30, 2020. The PSLL requires all New York private employers to provide paid...more
New York State has issued guidance in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) regarding the State’s Paid Sick Leave Law (“PSLL”), which became effective on September 30, 2020. As we previously reported, the PSLL...more
On September 28, 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed Int. No. 2032-A (“Amendments”) into law, amending New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“NYC ESSTA”) to align with New York State’s Paid Sick Leave Law (“NY PSLL”)....more
On June 15, 2020, and June 24, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued two Executive Orders (“EO”) numbers 202.45 and 205, which address COVID-19 travel-related restrictions. ...more
[Update: The Senate Passed the Revised Bill by a Vote of 90-8; It Now Goes to the President]
As we previously reported, on March 14, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response...more
On October 30, 2019, the Safe Time Leave Law (“Law”) in New York’s Westchester County went into effect. To help employers comply with their obligations under the Law and to advise employees of their rights, the County has...more
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After a prolonged legal battle that began in 2015, Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Days Act (“Act”) will soon become effective. Opponents of the Act had successfully challenged it in the lower courts, which found that the City of...more
The New York City Temporary Schedule Change Law (“Law”) became effective on July 18, 2018. As we reported in a previous Act Now Advisory, the Law allows most New York City employees up to two temporary schedule changes (or...more
On March 9, 2016, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law bill H. 187 (“Act”), which will require Vermont employers to provide paid sick leave beginning on January 1, 2017. Vermont has become the fifth state (after...more