(Podcast) California Employment News: Understanding the Workplace Know Your Rights Act
California Employment News: Understanding the Workplace Know Your Rights Act
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Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 3: Best Practices for Paid Sick Leave and Family Leave
California Employment News: Document Checklist for Departing Employees (Podcast)
California Employment News: Document Checklist for Departing Employees
California Employment News: Pay Transparency Coming to California
Employment Law Now VI-121 - Top 5 Fall Things You Need To Know
California's New COVID-19 Sick Leave Mandate: What Employers Need to Know
FLSA and Wage and Hour Issues for Restaurants
Practical Training for Project Managers & Supervisors Two-Part Webinar Series: Part Two
NGE OnDemand: The Importance of Timely Reporting Occurrences, Claims and Suits to Insurers with Paul Walker-Bright
#WorkforceWednesday: DOL Electronic Notices Guidance, EEO-1 Reporting Delayed, CA COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave - Employment Law This Week®
Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 2)
#WorkforceWednesday: Sick Leave in New York, California Law Update, and Oregon’s Workplace Fairness Act Takes Effect
Navigating the New Normal: Risk Management and Legal Considerations for Real Estate Companies
COBRA: Avoid Getting Snakebit! (Notice Update, Deadline Update, Litigation Update)
Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 5 of 5) – Implementation
October 2025 may very well be remembered as a turning point in the U.S. labor market. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, employers announced approximately 153,000 job cuts last month, marking the highest October total...more
As the new year approaches, Illinois will ring in 2026 with a new wave of legislative changes impacting employment practices. Among the most notable are expansions to employee leave entitlements and new limitations on certain...more
Following the June 1, 2025, effective date of the New Jersey Pay and Benefit Transparency Act, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development has issued proposed regulations explaining compliance with the Act....more
In 2023, Minnesota enacted legislation creating a statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave program (the “Program”), which is set to take effect on January 1, 2026. The law established a publicly administered insurance program...more
Effective January 1, 2026, the Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (DFML) announced an increase to the maximum weekly Massachusetts Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) benefit. For the second year in a row,...more
The new Minnesota Paid Leave (MPL) law, which provides for paid family and medical leave for most employees in Minnesota, will significantly impact the employment landscape for Minnesota employers starting January 1, 2026. ...more
AB 692 will apply to employment contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2026, and will apply to all employers in California. Under the new law, it will be unlawful to include terms in employment contracts that require...more
The Workplace Know Your Rights Act – SB 294, takes effect on January 1st, 2026 and provides requirements for employers to notify employees of their rights related to law enforcement interactions at work, as well as providing...more
Our Labor & Employment Group outlines new rules under California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (Cal-WARN) Act for employers planning a mass layoff, termination, or relocation....more
Amendments to the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) and Temporary Schedule Change Act (TSCA) will take effect on Feb. 22, 2026. The changes expand employee rights and increase employers’ safe and sick...more
On September 29, 2025, Ohio joined 13 other states with its adoption of a “mini-WARN” Act (“Ohio WARN”), which will supplement federal WARN notice requirements for employers anticipating mass layoff events....more
On October 1, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 406 into law, which amends Government Code section 12945.8, Labor Code sections 230.2, 230.5 and 246.5, and reinstates Labor Code sections 230 and...more
Effective Jan. 1, 2026, Rhode Island employers must provide all newly hired employees with a written notice containing key employment terms under amendments to the state’s Payment of Wages law (R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-14-12),...more
Earlier last month, our team published an in-depth article for federal contractors on navigating WARN Act compliance amid government shutdowns and federal contract cancellations. Since then, we’ve been closely monitoring the...more
Governor Newsom signed more than a dozen bills this year that expand and modify employer obligations, including employee notice, pay reporting, family leave, and personnel file requirements, while vetoing measures like the...more
In most states, employers have the flexibility to establish pay dates, whether on a weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or even monthly basis. For employers with biweekly Friday pay periods, a calendar quirk in 2026 may require...more
Navigating employee requests for family and/or medical leave can be among the most complicated workforce management issues that human resources managers face. This is especially true for employers operating in multiple...more
California has passed four new laws expanding employees’ rights with regard to notice about employee workplace rights, paid family leave, pay-scale transparency, and access to personnel records. Senate Bill (SB) 294 requires...more
Q: What happened? On October 25, 2025, New York City enacted Int. 780-A, amending New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“ESSTA” or “Sick/Safe Leave Law”) to align it with the Temporary Schedule Change Act (TSCA). The...more
On September 29, 2025, Ohio’s version of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“Ohio WARN Act”) officially went into effect. The enactment of this law makes Ohio the latest state to join the growing list of...more
The 2024–2025 California legislative session came to an official close at midnight on October 13, 2025, when Governor Newsom’s deadline to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature expired. Of the approximately 917 bills...more
As Election Day 2025 approaches, employers should ensure compliance with state and local laws governing employee voting leave. While not all jurisdictions require employers to provide time off to vote, many do—often with...more
California recently passed Senate Bill 617 which requires additional information to be provided in Cal-WARN Act notices issued on or after January 1, 2026. As a brief background, there are federal and state laws which...more
Following California’s 2023 expansion of job-protected, unpaid family medical leave and paid sick and safe time and its 2025 expansion of job-protected, unpaid leave for victims of violence to include use for a “designated...more