News & Analysis as of

Paid Leave › Penalties › Employer Liability Issues

Stokes Wagner

You Can Now Get Privately Sued for Failing to Provide NYC Safe and Sick Leave

Stokes Wagner on

Effective March 20, employees in New York City can bring private actions against their employers for violations of the city’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, NYC Admin. Code § 20-911 et seq. ...more

ArentFox Schiff

City of Chicago Enacts Expansive Paid Leave Ordinance Effective December 31, 2023

ArentFox Schiff on

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

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

City of Chicago Expands Paid Leave for Employees in New Ordinance

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on

On November 9, 2023, the Chicago City Council adopted the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance, expanding the current Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance to provide eligible employees with the ability to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Paid Sick Leave is Coming to Pittsburgh

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On July 17, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the City of Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Days Act (PSDA)—a 2015 ordinance that required businesses to provide paid sick leave to workers in the City—is valid....more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Maine Becomes First State to Require Paid Leave for Any Reason

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on

Maine’s Governor Janet Mills has signed into law an Act Authorizing Earned Employee Leave (the “Act”), which will require covered employers to provide employees with up to 40 hours of paid personal leave per calendar year....more

Conn Kavanaugh

Massachusetts Issues Draft Regulations for Paid Family Medical Leave Act

Conn Kavanaugh on

On January 23, the Department of Family and Medical Leave (“Department”) issued draft regulations expanding upon the Paid Family Medical Leave Act (“Act”), G. L. c. 175M, which was enacted last June. As we previously...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Issues Proposed Regulations For the New Jersey Sick Leave Act

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on

As detailed previously, the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act (the “Act”), goes into effect October 29, 2018. In general, the Act allows New Jersey employees to accrue one (1) hour of sick leave time per thirty (30) hours...more

Fisher Phillips

NJ Employers Are One Step Closer To Mandatory Paid Sick Leave - State DOL Publishes Poster And Proposed Regulations In Advance Of...

Fisher Phillips on

In just a few short weeks, New Jersey employers will be required to comply with the state’s new Paid Sick Leave Act. Once October 29 is upon us, New Jersey employers of all sizes will need to provide up to 40 hours of paid...more

Fisher Phillips

India Makes Significant Changes to Maternity Benefit Entitlements

Fisher Phillips on

This year, India became one of the most generous providers of maternity benefits in the world when it extended the period of maternity leave available to eligible working mothers from twelve (12) weeks to twenty-six (26)...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Jersey City, New Jersey Expands Paid Sick Leave

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on

The Jersey City Council voted to expand the scope of the City’s existing sick leave ordinance on October 29, 2015. Under the Ordinance as amended, employers with less than 10 employees now will be required to provide...more

10 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide