Following a successful ballot initiative in November 2024 known as Proposition A, the Missouri Earned Paid Sick Time Law went into effect as scheduled on May 1, 2025. However, the law has come under fire on multiple fronts in...more
5/16/2025
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After weeks of anticipation and brewing legal challenges to the impending Missouri Earned Paid Sick Time Law, which is still scheduled to go into effect Thursday, May 1, 2025, employers received some clarity this week from...more
In July 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court’s Mothering Justice et al. v. Attorney General et al. decision reinstated the State’s Earned Sick Time Act of 2018 (ESTA), effective February 21, 2025. This replaces the Michigan Paid...more
Governor Newsom recently signed new laws – SB 1105 and AB 2499 – which extend and clarify employees’ available reasons for use of California paid sick leave (PSL)....more
10/24/2024
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Out with the old and in with the new. Governor Newsom recently signed new laws which extend and clarify employees’ available reasons for use of California paid sick leave. There are expanded unpaid leave protections for...more
What You Need to Know:
On September 13, 2023, the California legislature passed S.B. 616, which expanded the State’s existing paid sick leave mandate, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, in significant...more
What You Need To Know:
Effective August 7, 2023, Colorado employees will be able to use leave under the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act for bereavement, to care for family members whose school or place of...more
On June 26, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law expanding the use of state-mandated paid sick leave for service workers.
The law introduces two changes to the reasons for use under the existing Connecticut...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Tuesday night, Colorado voters, through a ballot initiative in the general election, voted to approve a statewide paid family and medical leave mandate, the Colorado Paid Family and Medical Leave...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Multiple weeks after the New York State Paid Sick Leave (“NYPSL”) law’s September 30, 2020 effective date, the State has published a NYPSL website and set of frequently asked questions (“FAQs”). ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 9, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1867, which requires private employers with 500 or more employees nationwide to provide COVID-19-related supplemental paid sick leave to their...more
9/18/2020
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Employee Rights ,
Food Service Workers ,
Governor Newsom ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Sick Leave ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 11, 2020, Colorado became the first state to mandate COVID-19 related paid sick leave. The paid sick leave (“PSL”) bug continued to buzz through the state legislature...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA” or the “Act”) goes into effect tomorrow April 1, 2020. As covered employers prepare for the Act’s paid sick time (“PST”) and paid family medical leave...more
3/31/2020
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
EFMLA ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
EPSLA ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Financial Stimulus ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Inspections ,
New Legislation ,
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ,
Relief Measures ,
SBA Lending Programs ,
Sick Leave ,
Sick Pay ,
Tax Credits ,
Trump Administration
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave (“WPFML”) law was enacted in 2017. WPFML premium withholdings began January 1, 2019, and eligible employees can start receiving WPFML benefits as of...more
1/3/2020
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Covered Employer ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Regulations ,
Medical Leave ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Paid Leave ,
Posting Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: In June 2019, the Nevada Paid Leave Law (“PTO Law”) went into effect “for the purpose of adopting any regulations and performing any other preparatory administrative tasks necessary to carry out [its]...more
11/21/2019
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Notice Requirements ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Posting Requirements ,
Rate of Pay ,
Salaried Employees ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last month, Nevada became the second state to enact a mandatory paid time off law. The law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2020, requires employers to allow employees to use earned paid leave for any...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this week, Connecticut became the seventh state with a paid family leave program when Governor Ned Lamont signed the Paid Family and Medical Leave (“CPFML”) Act. CPFML premium withholdings begin on...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this week, Maine became the first state to enact a mandatory paid time off law. The law, known as the Earned Employee Leave Act, requires employers to allow employees to use earned paid leave for...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Michigan’s Paid Medical Leave Act went into effect on March 29, 2019, but will it remain valid law? The Michigan Supreme Court is considering whether the state legislature’s action amending the law was...more
5/1/2019
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Amended Legislation ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Lame Duck Session ,
MI Supreme Court ,
New Legislation ,
Oral Argument ,
Paid Leave ,
Sick Leave ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
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: With the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act’s October 29, 2018 effective date rapidly approaching, the state recently released proposed Earned Sick Leave Rules. However, it looks very likely that the rules will...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
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
Last month, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training released the state’s final paid sick and safe leave regulations. As the state paid sick leave law’s July 1, 2018 effective date approaches, the regulations impose...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