Seyfarth Synopsis: On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, approximately one week before San Antonio’s paid sick leave ordinance was scheduled to go into effect for most employers, a Texas state court stayed implementation of the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, approximately one week before San Antonio’s paid sick leave ordinance was scheduled to go into effect for most employers, a Texas state court stayed implementation of the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Monday, a lawsuit seeking an injunction of the San Antonio Paid Sick Leave Ordinance’s August 1, 2019 effective date was filed in a Bexar County District Court. The lawsuit was filed on the same...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Since the enactment of New York City’s original Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) in 2014, the City’s employers have dealt with a seemingly steady stream of updates expanding the law’s scope. In addition to the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Despite gubernatorial support, passing through the state Senate, and being reported favorably out of Committee in the House, multiple bills that likely would have preempted local sick leave ordinances in...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this month, and only weeks after its new Earned Sick Leave Law (“ESLL”) took effect, Westchester County, NY enacted the Safe Leave Time Law (“SLTL”)....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 24, the Dallas City Council passed a paid sick leave ordinance making Dallas the latest Texas municipality to become infected by the nation’s sick leave epidemic....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Westchester County Earned Sick Leave Law went into effect as of Wednesday, April 10, 2019. In the hours leading up to the effective date, the County Human Rights Commission launched an Earned Sick Leave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Philadelphia joins the ranks of other cities after passing its own predictable scheduling law. The law will impact employers in the retail, food service, and hospitality industries. Covered employers will...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: This blog presents Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Infographic tracking the spread of paid sick leave and anti-local sick leave laws around the country. The Infographic is divided into four distinct time periods to...more
12/20/2018
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Employee Rights ,
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State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following a Cook County, IL voter referendum where voters overwhelmingly expressed support for paid sick leave, certain Cook County municipalities are reversing course and “opting-in” to the County’s...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On November 16, 2018, the Texas Court of Appeals for the Third District dealt a major blow to the paid sick leave wave in Austin by reversing a lower court’s decision to deny a temporary injunction of the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last month, Westchester County became the second New York State municipality - and first county - to pass a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance. The ordinance is expected to take effect on or about March...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Through a set of rules titled “Procedures of the Office of Labor Policy and Standards,” New York City amended portions of the rules pertaining to the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. The amended Earned Safe...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week ended with a flurry of paid sick leave developments in multiple Texas municipalities. On Thursday, August 16, the San Antonio City Council passed a paid sick leave ordinance, making it just the...more
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has released a model Notice of Employee Right and Frequently Asked Questions regarding its new Temporary Schedule Change Law that went into effect last week. Employers should...more
Effective July 18, 2018, New York City employers must grant two temporary schedule changes per year to eligible employees for certain qualifying “personal events.” Unlike other bills which were a part of the NYC Fair...more
June 7, 2018, when the city’s new Paid Sick Leave rules take effect, marks the latest chapter in the City by the Bay’s long history of imposing local employment standards that exceed state requirements. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As New York City’s amended paid sick leave ordinance, now called the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, went into effect on May 5, just days earlier New Jersey officially became home to the tenth statewide paid...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Catching the paid sick leave bug, on February 16, 2018, Austin became the first Texas city – and the first Southern jurisdiction – to pass a mandatory paid sick leave ordinance, which will take effect on...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this month Prince George’s County, MD passed a paid safe leave ordinance that is scheduled to go into effect in May 2018. The ordinance mandates that covered employers provide eligible employees...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Use of paid sick time for “safe time” reasons is coming to New York City following Mayor Bill de Blasio’s signing of an amendment to the city’s Earned Sick Time Act earlier this week....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 17, 2017, the New York City Council passed an amendment to the city’s Earned Sick Time Act that, if signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio as expected, would allow eligible employees to use paid sick...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time Ordinance, but ruled that it cannot be enforced against nonresident employers. Barring reversal on appeal to the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 1, 2017, after more than a year of waiting, the Berkeley, CA paid sick leave ordinance goes into effect. The ordinance provides extraordinarily generous paid sick leave benefits to employees...more