On July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4-to-3 decision, found unconstitutional legislative amendments that significantly revised minimum wage, tip, and paid sick leave standards....more
8/7/2024
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Employee Benefits ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Reform ,
Medical Leave ,
MI Supreme Court ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Wage and Hour
On April 30, 2024, the Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) published the final rules interpreting the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) which is set...more
The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) has published the final regulations interpreting the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”) which took effect four months earlier on January 1, 2024. The final regulations...more
On On December 14, 2023, the Cook County Board of Commissioners (“Board”) passed the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which converts the pre-existing Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance into an...more
On December 13, 2023, the Chicago City Council voted to delay the paid leave changes in the new Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”) from January 1, 2024 to July 1, 2024. The Ordinance,...more
On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council passed the new Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”). The Ordinance will take effect on December 31, 2023. It will replace the Chicago Paid...more
On November 3, 2023, the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) published much anticipated proposed regulations interpreting the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”) set to take effect January 1, 2024. The Act...more
On September 15, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection adopted changes to the regulations governing the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA). The effective date of the changes is October...more
Illinois recently expanded bereavement leave rights for two groups of Illinois employees: (1) parents who lose a child to suicide or homicide, and (2) family members of those killed in a crime of violence....more
Last year, Delaware enacted the Healthy Delaware Families Act (HDFA), adding Delaware to an expanding list of jurisdictions with a paid family and medical leave (PFML) requirement. The PFML program is not yet live, and the...more
Minnesota has joined the growing number of jurisdictions that have enacted paid family and/or medical leave programs for employees.1 On May 25, 2023, Governor Tim Walz signed HF 2, a Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML)...more
On March 31, 2023, Bloomington, Minnesota published “initial” rules implementing its Earned Sick and Safe Leave (ESSL) Ordinance, which will take effect on July 1, 2023. It also published the mandatory Notice of Employee...more
As we mark the third anniversary of COVID-19 compliance challenges in the United States, we are gifting employers a roundup of where things stand with COVID-19 (or related) leave requirements. We highlight laws that did not...more
On February 28, 2023, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor (PDOL) published regulations concerning three distinct types of job-protected paid leave employers must provide under the Promoting Healthy Families and...more
3/7/2023
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Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Local Ordinance ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Sick Leave ,
Sick Pay ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On January 19, 2023, St. Paul, Minnesota Mayor Melvin Carter signed into law amendments to the Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) Ordinance, which will take effect 30 days later, on February 18, 2023. Four days later, on...more
After a “gut and replace” of Illinois Senate Bill 208 at the beginning of the 2023 legislative session, the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”) passed both houses of the legislature on January 10, 2023. The Act has...more
1/18/2023
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Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Illinois ,
Labor Reform ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On June 21, 2022, New Mexico’s Department of Workforce Solutions (DWS) published final regulations implementing the Healthy Workplaces Act (HWA), which will take effect throughout most parts of the “Land of Enchantment” on...more
On June 6, 2022, the Bloomington City Council passed an Earned Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance, joining its local counterparts Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth to provide paid sick and safe time to employees. Employers have...more
On May 10, 2022, Governor John Carney signed into law the Healthy Delaware Families Act, adding Delaware to an expanding list of jurisdictions with a paid family and/or medical leave (PFML) requirement. The law creates a...more
Maine’s governor recently signed H.P. 160 - L.D. 225, amending the state’s final wages statute to require that “[a]ll unused paid vacation accrued pursuant to the employer's vacation policy on and after January 1, 2023 must...more
4/25/2022
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Amended Legislation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Former Employee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
State Labor Laws ,
Termination ,
Vacation Pay ,
Wage and Hour
On March 3, 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s City Council adopted and sent to the mayor (who we expect to sign) Bill # 220051-A, an ordinance requiring covered employers to provide paid “COVID-19 Leave” starting immediately...more
3/11/2022
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Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Sick Employees ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour
On August 20, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Illinois House Bill 3582, which takes effect on January 1, 2022 and amends the Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) in several ways. ...more
On June 25, 2021, the Chicago City Council passed Ordinance No. O2021-2182 (the “Ordinance”), part of Mayor Lightfoot’s Chi Biz Strong Initiative. The Ordinance, which takes effect August 1, 2021, creates new wage theft...more
On May 11, 2021, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania enacted amendments that immediately strengthen workplace protections for victims of domestic violence....more
On April 27, 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 158 (HB 158), which amends the Employee Sick Leave Act (ESLA) to cover leave for a family member’s “personal care.” ...more