The City of Chicago has passed a Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance entitling covered employees up to 10 days of paid leave per year: 40 hours of leave for any reason (Paid Leave) and an additional 40 hours of Paid Sick...more
While paid sick leave is novel for employers in most of New York State, New York City employers are familiar with paid sick leave requirements. Nonetheless, New York City employers will need to revise their existing policies...more
As described in our prior alert, New York enacted the New York State Sick Leave Law (NYSSL) imposing sweeping paid sick leave requirements for New York employers. Under the NYSSL, employees begin to accrue paid sick leave on...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The New Jersey Earned Sick Leave Law (“ESLL”) Proposed Rules were first published in September 2018. Seemingly on bedrest until earlier this month, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce...more
The City of Duluth has published final rules and revised FAQs implementing its Earned Sick and Safe Time Ordinance. The Ordinance takes effect January 1, 2020 for employers with five or more employees, regardless of whether...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On October 3, 2019, the San Antonio City Council adopted an amended PSL ordinance, now known as the Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (“SSLO”). Despite a number of key differences between the SSLO and San...more
In August, the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania passed an ordinance that will require most employers to provide workers with paid or unpaid sick time. Pittsburgh follows the lead of Philadelphia, which approved a similar...more
On August 5, 2015, the City of Tacoma, Washington published its final Paid Leave Rules (“Rules”) implementing Tacoma’s Paid Leave Ordinance (“Ordinance”). The Ordinance requires nearly all private sector employers to provide...more
According to a report in the New York Times, the White House is currently considering an Executive Order (“EO”) requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to their employees. According to the report, the...more