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California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
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
California often finds itself at the forefront of labor and employment law, with changes affecting employers each year. This year is no different. In 2025, employers can expect a variety of impactful changes to the...more
Capping off a years’ long saga, and with only minutes to spare, on February 20, 2025, the Michigan Legislature (the Legislature) passed much anticipated amendments to the Michigan Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA) and Improved...more
We previously notified New York State employers of an amendment to the paid sick leave law for prenatal care. The law went into effect January 1, 2025. All employers need to ensure they understand and comply with the law....more
Seattle continues to expand protections for app-based workers (sometimes referred to as “gig workers”) working within the City of Seattle with its new App-Based Worker Deactivation Rights Ordinance....more
Connecticut’s existing paid sick days law requires employers with more than 50 employees that are mostly in specific retail and service occupations (such as food service workers and health care workers) to provide their...more
In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 Days of California Labor and Employment" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on employers. On the twelfth day of the holidays, my labor and...more
In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 Days of California Labor and Employment" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on employers. On the eleventh day of the holidays, my labor and...more
Statutory definition does not reference municipalities, boards of education or political subdivisions, leaving room for interpretation under Public Act 24-8 Arguably the most significant labor and employment development...more
Missouri voters’ approval of statewide ballot initiative Proposition A (Prop A) will usher in significant changes to the state’s minimum wage law and, for the first time in state history, mandate employers to provide paid...more
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, along with other Missouri business groups, recently filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Missouri attempting to stop Proposition A from taking effect. The lawsuit asserts five...more
The November 2024 general election saw the approval of a number of state ballot measures, as our colleagues reported here. Among those measures are a new paid sick leave (PSL) law in Nebraska and paid sick and safe leave...more
The most wonderful time of the year often portends many legal hiccups for the unassuming business. And this year is no different. As the holiday season approaches and we turn the calendar to 2025, New York employers should...more
As we previously reported, earlier this year a new paid prenatal personal leave entitlement was added to Section 196-b of the New York Labor Law, i.e., the New York State Paid Sick Leave Law....more
On November 5, Missourians voted to approve Proposition A, a referendum implementing mandatory paid sick leave law for Missouri employees. Thus, effective May 1, 2025, Missouri will join the growing list of states that...more
Employers with employees in Connecticut need to be aware of Connecticut’s recently enacted revision to Public Act No. 24-8, which broadens the scope of paid sick leave requirements, making it applicable to a broader range of...more
As we reported last week, paid sick leave initiatives were on the ballot and up for vote in three states – Alaska (“Ballot Measure No. 1”), Missouri (“Proposition A”), and Nebraska (“Initiative 436”)....more
Paid sick leave initiatives are on the ballot and up for vote in three states that don’t necessarily jump off the page as home grounds for a potential paid sick leave mandate. These states include Alaska (“Ballot Measure No....more
In recognition of the important role that pets play in people’s lives, on October 23, 2024, the New York City Council introduced a bill (Int. 1089-2024) that would amend the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to...more
Join us for a comprehensive, complimentary webinar on November 20, 2024, from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. (Pacific), presented by CDF Partners Mark S. Spring and Nicole Legrottaglie Wohl. This “Year in Review” session will cover the...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
With the Governor’s September 30 deadline to sign bills behind us, we review the employment bills that made the cut to become laws, as well as those that didn’t survive the season. The most notable new laws read...more
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
Effective February 21, 2025, Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will replace the Paid Medical Leave Act (“PMLA”). As detailed in our prior update, the ESTA is a significantly more pro-employee mandate than the current...more
Effective November 21, 2024, Massachusetts employers must allow employees to use Massachusetts Earned Sick Time to address the employee’s or the employee’s spouse’s physical or mental health needs related to pregnancy loss or...more