Seyfarth Synopsis: While we await Friday’s release of the revised, proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) regulations, the Department of Family and Medical Leave posted on its website new toolkits for employers and...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: January 23, 2019, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) released a draft of the Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) regulations still under development for the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: While we await the proposed regulations due by March 31, 2019, the new Department of Family and Medical Leave has provided several points of clarification of which employers should be aware, as we gear up...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On July 17, 2017, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that an employer could be liable under the Massachusetts Anti-Discrimination Act for disability discrimination by declining employment based...more
7/19/2017
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Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 1, 2016, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill that will amend the Commonwealth’s pay equity law effective in 2018. The changes will make the law one of the most stringent in the...more
8/2/2016
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Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday, Governor Charlie Baker signed the Transgender Public Accommodations Bill into law. Massachusetts now protects transgender persons from discrimination in places of public accommodation....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Yesterday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in places of public accommodation. Specifically, this measure protects...more
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office recently issued a wave of information requests to employers in the Commonwealth seeking data on how companies pay their employees. Unlike familiar requests from the AG’s Fair Labor...more
On Friday afternoon, the Massachusetts Attorney General issued the final Earned Sick Time Regulations. There are a number of changes from the proposed Regulations, most of which we highlight below. As previously reported,...more
The Massachusetts Attorney General has issued the awaited, mandatory Earned Sick Time Notice.
Pursuant to the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law, which takes effect July 1, 2015, employers shall post this Notice in a...more
6/15/2015
On May 18, 2015, the Attorney General’s Office issued a safe harbor policy that allows certain employers a six-month extension of time to comply with the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law (“ESTL”) that otherwise takes effect...more