What's the Tea in L&E? Bogus Excuses
Arizona law allows workers paid time off to vote on Election Day
Episode 19: Is This Paid Family Leave’s Moment?
The Close of the Obama Era: What It Means for Employers
What’s the Tea in L&E celebrates its one-year anniversary! Tune in to hear labor and employment attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan’s advice on how to handle questionable employee excuses for not showing up to...more
If you need to take time out of work to seek medical attention, counseling, victim services or legal assistance; secure housing; obtain an abuse prevention order from a court; appear in court; meet with law enforcement; or...more
Can you have an employment policy that is clearly based on gender? What if it doesn’t affect an “ultimate employment decision,” such as hiring, firing, promoting, granting leave or compensation? Last year, we told you about a...more
As Election Day approaches, employers should ensure they are in compliance with state law requirements related to employee voting rights. While not all states impose requirements on employers, some impose time off obligations...more
CDF Labor Law has designed a series of complimentary webinars on employment-related topics specifically designed for our friends and colleagues in the healthcare industry. CDF’s Healthcare Education Week will run October 4-8,...more
Whether managing a disability leave of absence, providing parental leave, or classifying time out of the office as paid sick, employers face a complex web of laws and obligations that impact employee morale, productivity and...more
To assist employers, corporate counsel, and HR professionals that are still grappling with the myriad of COVID-19 issues, CDF has designed a series of complimentary webinars for the week of December 7-11, 2020 from 9-10 am...more
Everyone is talking about voting options — absentee ballots, early voting, and, of course, the traditional going to the polls on election day. With the presidential election on November 3, you may be thinking about giving...more
Employees who suffer physical or mental injury due to a crime will be entitled to job-protected leave and other protections from their employers under legislation signed this week by Governor Gavin Newsom. Employers will bear...more
As Election Day approaches and despite the anticipated uptick in absentee ballots, employers should ensure they are in compliance with state law requirements related to employee voting rights. While not all states impose...more
In the latest Department of Labor (DOL) Opinion Letter, issued on March 14, 2019, the question posed to the DOL was, “May we allow employees to use some or all of their paid leave before using FMLA leave in connection with an...more
New Jersey’s governor just approved a significant expansion of the state’s leave laws, permitting employees job-protected leave for a variety of new reasons while expanding available state-provided, income-replacement...more
With Election Day fast approaching, employers may be confronted with—and, pursuant to certain state laws, are often required to grant—employee requests to take time off to vote. For example, in New York, employers must...more
Unless you have been living under a rock, you should know by now that on August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will cross the continental United States, coast to coast. While the entire country will experience a partial...more
Matt welcomes prominent members of the NYC Plaintiff’s bar and mother-daughter guest team Laurie Berke-Weiss and Alex Berke to discuss the recent proliferation of state and local paid family leave statutes; paid family and...more
Steven W. Suflas, a partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment Group, outlines five recent Obama administration developments that will shape employer and management liabilities....more
The leaves are changing, and the air is turning cooler. While employers are gearing up for fall, voting leave may be far from their minds. After all, even though the presidential candidates are in full swing campaign mode,...more
It’s that time of year when students around the country head back to school. In addition to watching their office supplies fly out of their store rooms, employers will see an increase in employee requests for time off work to...more
With the start of the new year, it is the perfect time for employers to ensure that their policies reflect the changes in California law. We covered many of the laws affecting employers in our “California Legislative Update...more