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Paid Leave State Labor Laws Payroll Taxes

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Maine Paid Leave Insurance Fund Contributions to Begin in 2025, Rulemaking Process Imminent

Maine employers may be preparing to comply with Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program as required payroll contributions to the PFML Insurance Fund are set to begin on January 1, 2025, but questions remain as...more

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Unionized Oregon Employers Have Until March 31, 2023, to Collect Employee Contributions to Paid Leave Oregon

Oregon employers with collective bargaining agreements (CBA) have until March 31, 2023, to begin deducting employee contributions to Paid Leave Oregon, the Paid Leave Oregon Advisory Committee clarified on March 1, 2023....more

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California Pumps Up Paid Leave Benefits

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​​​​​​​On September 30, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law (Senate Bill 951 or “SB951”) providing for increased benefits for workers taking paid family leave. The existing California Paid Family Leave law...more

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2022 Hot Topics in Employment Law Seminar Highlights

On May 13, 2022, the Miles & Stockbridge Labor, Employment, Benefits & Immigration practice group presented its twentieth annual Hot Topics in Employment Law seminar to clients from throughout Maryland and beyond. Topics...more

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Delaware Joins Trend to Provide Paid Family Leave: What Employers Need to Know

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Governor John Carney recently signed a bill making Delaware the 11th state to create a paid family leave program for eligible employees. Covered businesses will need to make payroll contributions beginning January 1, 2025,...more

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Employer FAQs as Maryland Becomes 10th State to Provide Paid Family Leave

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Maryland will soon be the tenth state to offer paid family leave to employees, continuing a trend that is expected to roll across the country in the next few years. This comes after the Maryland legislature’s April 9 vote to...more

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Whiplash: Is A New FFCRA On The Horizon?

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As we discussed previously after the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) expired on December 31, 2020, President Trump signed the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) which allowed employers to decide if...more

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Colorado Passes Paid Family And Medical Leave Insurance Program: What Do Employers Need To Do Now?

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Colorado voters passed Proposition 118 yesterday, creating Paid Family and Medical Leave obligations for all employers in the state. This initiative mandates that employers provide 12 weeks of leave for Colorado employees,...more

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Considerations for October 1, 2019 Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax

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Beginning on October 1, most employers in Massachusetts will be required to withhold tax to fund Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave benefits. There is an exception to this requirement, however, for companies that...more

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Oregon Passes Nation’s Most Generous Paid Family Leave Law

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While many Oregonians were enjoying a leisurely holiday break last week, Oregon lawmakers were busy enacting the nation’s most generous paid leave program. Governor Kate Brown signed a law into effect on July 1 that will...more

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Family Ties: Connecticut Passes Paid Family and Medical Leave

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Connecticut adopted a new paid family and medical leave law. The law requires all private sector employers with employees who work in Connecticut to provide paid leave to eligible employees, and it expands the allowable...more

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Taxation without a DC location – the District of Columbia’s Universal Paid Leave Act tax goes into effect July 1, 2019

In order to support the District of Columbia’s new Universal Paid Leave Act (the Act), covered employers will be required to contribute to the Universal Paid Leave Implementation Fund (the Fund), by way of a payroll tax of...more

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DC Universal Paid Leave Tax Kickoff – The First Quarter Has Already Started

We recently provided DC employers with information about the imminent Universal Paid Leave tax. Since that post, we have received word from the DC Office of Employment Services (DOES) that the first quarterly tax will be...more

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DC Employers – On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!: Universal Paid Leave Tax Starts Soon

District employers, get on your marks! We told you way back in 2017 that Universal Paid Leave (UPL) would be coming to the District, and here it is. Under the DC Universal Paid Leave Act (the Act) and its implementing...more

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New Payroll Tax Under the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave

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New Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave - Beginning in 2021, all Massachusetts employers must provide their employees (and, in some cases, contractors) paid leave for family and medically related absences. Under the...more

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Client Alert - State Department Website Sheds Light on New Massachusetts Paid FMLA

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During the first weeks of 2019, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (“EOLWD”) has been busy carrying out its legislative mandate to set up a new state department (the “Department”) to administer the...more

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Client Alert - Tip for Massachusetts Employers of Tipped Workers: Complying with New Minimum Wage Law Means "Per Shift" Payroll...

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As of January 1, 2019, the new minimum wage in Massachusetts is $12 per hour, and $4.35 for tipped employees, but with an important caveat: under the new minimum wage regime, employers must ensure that each tipped employee...more

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Paid Family and Medical Leave Comes to Massachusetts

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Massachusetts enacted legislation this past summer (Acts 2018, c. 121, the “Act”) creating its first state-administered Paid Family and Medical Leave Program (the “Program”). Employers of all sizes are required to participate...more

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Paid Family and Medical Leave Comes to Massachusetts

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Adding the Commonwealth to the small-but-expanding list of states providing employees with paid leave benefits, Massachusetts enacted legislation this past summer (Acts 2018, ch. 121, the “Act”) to create a new...more

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