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The Labor Law Insider: Whistleblower Breaks Details of NLRB Mail Ballot Election Abuse
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California Employment News: Understanding ADA/FEHA Requirements and the Interactive Process
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Employment Law Now VIII-148- Part 1 of 2: The Final Interview With EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling
Back to School: 3 Essential Employee Trainings
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 30: Plaintiff Legal Trends with Paul Porter of Cromer, Babb & Porter
Managing Labor and Employment Complexities in Cannabis Businesses
The Burr Broadcast: OSHA Clarifies Work-Relatedness of Employee Injuries While Traveling
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 29: Weed in the Workplace with Christy Rogers of Maynard Nexsen
The Chartwell Chronicles: Employment Law Updates
The New EEOC Guidelines on Workplace Harassment
Emoji Etiquette: Navigating Professionalism and Connection in the Workplace With The Emoji Movie — Hiring to Firing Podcast
The Labor Law Insider - Collective Bargaining: Ins and Outs, Nuts and Bolts, Part I
As Q4 approaches, many employers are completing 2024 goals and setting 2025 goals, including updating their key employment policies and agreements to ensure they align with ever-evolving federal, state, and local laws and...more
Maryland’s General Assembly passed several employment laws that are scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2024. Areas of change include paid family leave, posting salary ranges and pay rate notifications, and an expansion of...more
As Summer transitions to Fall, political ads are everywhere. Pumpkins, pigskins, polls and prognostications abound. Unless you live under a rock, you know 2024 is an election year. As election day approaches, employers...more
In its September 13, 2024 decision in Bodge et al. v. Commonwealth et al., SJC-13567 (2024), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) ruled that an employer’s policy of denying the accrual of certain benefits to...more
This month, in the final part of our Adams and Reese Paid Family and Medical Leave series, we examine highlights of the mandatory PFML laws in Colorado and the District of Columbia, two other jurisdictions within the Adams...more
Under the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance, most employers in Cook County, Illinois, must provide their employees in the county up to 40 hours of paid leave that can be used for any reason. The Cook County Commission on Human...more
Beginning on July 1, 2024, employers in Chicago must begin to comply with significant new obligations that further complicate a tangle of state and local laws mandating paid leave....more
Essential leave laws every CA employer should know! Weintraub Tobin attorneys Meagan Bainbridge and Ryan Abernethy break down the key points and provide practical advice on managing these leaves in the latest installment of...more
On May 21, 2024, Governor Ned Lamont signed into law a bill that creates sweeping changes to Connecticut’s Paid Sick Leave Law, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-57r, et seq. (the “Amendments”). The Amendments will greatly expand the...more
Paid Leave Oregon (PLO) and the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) will undergo significant changes as of July 1, 2024. The Oregon legislature passed a new law on March 20, 2024, to remedy questions about the interplay of...more
2024 is already shaping up to be another year with significant new compliance obligations for New York employers. Below, we list five actionable steps New York employers should take to tackle the ever-growing challenge of...more
On March 20, 2024, Governor Tina Kotek signed into law Senate Bill 1515, which eliminated some qualifying reasons for leave under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) that overlapped with qualifying reasons for leave under Paid...more
As we previously advised, under Oregon Senate Bill 1515 (“SB 1515”) effective July 1, 2024, most of the Oregon Family Leave Act (“OFLA”)—including leave for the employee’s or a family member’s serious health condition—will...more
Illinois employers now have some long-awaited answers to key questions about a paid leave law that took effect earlier this year. Specifically, the Illinois Department of Labor published final regulations on April 30...more
California - COVID-19 Definitions and Procedures: On January 9, 2024, the California Department of Health (CDPH) revised several COVID-19 definitions and testing requirements. The state has revised testing rules for close...more
Governor Tina Kotek is expected to sign the bill into law a bill that would eliminate most qualifying reasons for an employee’s protected leave under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) that are now covered under the state’s...more
With each passing year, the country’s patchwork of mandatory state paid family and paid family medical leave (collectively, “PFML” or “PFL”) laws continues to evolve and expand. Why is this existing patchwork so challenging...more
Thursday was the deadline for all Washington, D.C., employers to post the new paid family leave notice/poster, which was recently issued by the district’s Department of Employment Services (DOES). The notice must be posted in...more
In the latest paid leave law development out of New York, the New York City Council amended the City's Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) to create a private right of action....more
2023 was a seismic year for the employment landscape, with changes to state and federal laws that touch on hiring, firing, and just about everything in between. Members of Fenwick’s employment group recently walked through...more
California recently amended its sick leave law, the Healthy Families Healthy Workplace Act, by increasing paid sick leave accrual mandates and sick time cap amounts. Lizbeth (“Beth”) West and Shauna Correia discuss these...more
As any savvy employer will tell you, the start of the new year comes with new employee leave obligations. Effective January 1, 2024, employers across the country must comply with various new employee paid leave laws and...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more
What You Need to Know: Background: The Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance passed the Cook County Board by a nearly unanimous vote on December 14, 2023. One Board member declined to vote, but the remaining 16 members present...more