Seyfarth Synopsis: New York’s Paid Family Leave program continues to expand in 2019 and employers should be aware of important updates, including the increase to 10 weeks of leave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Board has recently revised its interpretation of two key provisions of the New York Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) Law: First, by allowing employers to use the employee’s weekly wage as opposed to the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance recently issued guidance on the tax treatment of New York State Paid Family Leave employee contributions and the PFL benefit. The guidance directs that...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The final regulations were released for the New York Paid Family Leave law, which will be effective January 1, 2018. The regulations contain few substantive changes from the revised proposed regulations,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York State Department of Financial Services has set the amount of the maximum weekly employee contribution at 0.126% of an employee’s average weekly wage or the statewide average weekly wage,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 25, 2017, the Workers’ Compensation Board, incorporating comments from Seyfarth Shaw LLP and other industry groups, proposed another set of revised regulations for New York’s Paid Family Leave Law. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Workers’ Compensation Board issued proposed regulations for New York’s Paid Family Leave Law (“PFL”). The regulations provide much needed guidance on many key areas of the law, including eligibility...more
New York will increase its minimum wage to $15.00 an hour in gradual increases, beginning December 31, 2016. In keeping with the wave of new legislation in states and cities across the country, New York also passed the Paid...more
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