New York’s Short Term Disability Benefits The State of New York passed their Temporary Disability Benefits Program in 1949, making it one of the first state run disability programs. To...
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Utah Sick Leave and Protected Leave As many cities and states across the U.S.A. pass mandatory sick leave or local family medical leave laws, many Utah employers have wondered what...
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Understanding what an Employee Self-Service Portal Can Do Before the Employee Self Service (ESS) or employee portal, Human Resource professionals were required to manage such tasks such as changes to...
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Businesses to Maintain Compliance with Local and Federal Medical Leave Laws In the United States three main levels of employment law can apply to employers simultaneously. Locally, businesses may have...
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Maryland Parental Leave Act Overview for Business Owners The Maryland Parental Leave Act (PLA) went into effect on October 1, 2014. Like Colorado, Maryland legislatures sought to supplement FMLA law...
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Oregon Protected Leave The Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) provides an unpaid, protected leave for Oregon Employees. OFLA offers leave in addition to Oregon's Sick Leave Law, and may in...
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Washington Laws Govern Sick Leave & Protected Leave Washington State has many labor laws that govern the relationship between the employer and the employee. In addition to the state’s sick...
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Washington Passes a Family Leave Law In 2007, Washington passed the Family Leave Act (FLA), which expanded the leave provisions provided under the U.S. FMLA. At the time only two...
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FMLA Employee Benefits The United State’s federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was created to provide job protection for employees under certain family or medical reasons. The act provides...
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Seattle as a Test Subject for Minimum Wage In 2014, Seattle led the country by passing the highest minimum wage law in the country among large cities. The new minimum...
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D.C. FMLA and Paid Family Leave Overview For over 5 years, Washington D.C. has offered an unpaid, but protected Family Medical Leave that provides up to 16 weeks of Family...
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District of Columbia’s FMLA Overview Washington D.C. has provided an unpaid family medical leave for D.C. employees for over 5 years. However, many employers and managers still have questions about...
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Overview of Minnesota Family Leave Laws The Minnesota Parental Leave Law was updated in 2004, but unfortunately many employers are still operating under the old leave guidelines. This can add...
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Overview of Vermont’s Parental Family Leave Act Vermont’s Parental Family Leave Act (PFLA) provides three separate leave types for employees. Although the act separates leave into three distinct provisions, the...
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Overview of Connecticut’s FMLA Laws Connecticut is one of 12 states that provide protected leave for family care, bonding, or medical purposes. In addition, the federal Family Medical Leave Act...
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Pregnancy Disability Leave in California California is one of the few states that offers both a pregnancy disability leave and a family medical care leave for employees. In many cases,...
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Family and Medical Leave In California California is one of the few states that offers both a pregnancy disability leave and a family medical care leave for employees. In many...
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Understanding the Differences between Family Leave and Temporary Disability Insurance In our previous article New Jersey Family Leave Act vs. FMLA we discussed the differences between the New Jersey Family...
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Maintaining Compliance under the Family Leave Act or FMLA At first glance, New Jersey’s Family Leave Act may look simple and easy for employers to maintain compliance. Business owners may...
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Uniform Labor Standards Act to Create Uniform Landscape in Employment Law In March, the Minnesota House of Representatives approved HF 600. The bill prevents local cities from enacting local minimum...
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Mid-Year Labor Laws Mean Extra Care for Employers Employers across the United States have less than 30 days to be prepared for several employment laws that are taking effect on...
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Mississippi passes a Preemptive Sick Leave Law Mississippi State currently does not have any mandatory sick leave laws on the books. In fact, in 2013, state legislatures passed a minimum...
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New Idaho Minimum Wage Law As increased minimum wage laws sweep the nation, many Idaho employers have carefully watched the Idaho legislature to monitor laws regarding sick leave or minimum...
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Sick Leave Laws in Delaware Sick leave and state FMLA laws have been passing around the country. In the last year alone, DC, Rhode Island and New York have all...
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Colorado Sick Leave, Vacation Pay and Paid Time Off Laws Colorado employers do not have any local or state laws that require mandatory sick leave, but there are some specific...
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Colorado Family Care Act Created to Expand FMLA Rules The Colorado Family Care Act (FCA) was signed into law on May 3, 2013 by Governor Hickenlooper. The law was created...
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Alaska Sick Leave Laws Employers across the United States have seen local cities and states enacting additional employment and labor laws. This has often made it costly and expensive for...
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Rhode Island Parental Family Medical Leave Currently several states have started offering family medical leaves. Three states offer paid family medical leave including California, New Jersey, New York and Rhode...
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Rhode Island has many Leave Laws Employers Must Comply With Employers in Rhode Island must be able to navigate through a myriad of leave laws, both paid and unpaid. Rhode...
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Rhode Island increases minimum wage while preempting local minimum wage. Rhode Island first started increasing the state’s minimum wage in 2004 when it increased minimum wage to $6.75. Then in...
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Local Sick Leave Laws are Preempted by State Law In 2011, Milwaukee voters passed a paid sick leave law, the third in the country behind San Francisco and Washington DC....
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Tennessee Preempts Minimum Wage and Sick Leave In 2013 Tennessee enacted bill HB 0501 or Public Chapter 91, a preemption against local employment laws. As the fight for $15 and...
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Missouri Passes Its Second Preemptive Minimum Wage Bill In 2015 when both St. Louis and Kansas City were looking at local employment law changes, Missouri State Legislatures became concerned about...
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Two Year Battle Over Minimum Wage Pauses In 2015 when the St. Louis Minimum Wage Ordinance was passed, it was soon to become part of a larger controversy. At the...
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Two FMLA Laws for Business Regulatory Compliance The Wisconsin Family Medical Leave Act was one of the first medical leave acts to be passed. It was passed in 1988, a...
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The Background Behind Oklahoma’s Preemptive Sick Leave & Minimum Wage Law With the introduction of HB 1634 in the 2017 legislative session, lawmakers took a look at repealing Oklahoma’s 2014...
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Signed New Sick Leave Law into Effect Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal signed a new labor law into effect on Monday, May 8, 2017. However, the new...
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Oklahoma Legislatures reviewing bills to increase minimum wage, mandate sick leave, and stop statewide preemption of sick leave laws. Lawmakers in the State of Oklahoma are considering three separate bills...
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Overview of Louisiana’s Preemptive Law Act 667 In 2012, Louisiana passed one of the country’s first preemptive sick leave laws. Although Act 667 isn’t specifically written to preempt only local...
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New Act Amends Existing Law while Creating New Ohio Bill SB331 just went into effect on March 20, 2017. The bill was an interesting hodgepodge of laws which included many...
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Overview of the Emeryville Fair Workplaces Ordinance Last fall, just after the passing of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance, Emeryville passed their own version in the Fair Workweek Ordinance. As the...
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The History behind Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Seattle was the second city in the country to pass a Secure Scheduling Ordinance. At 27 pages, it is more comprehensive than the city’s...
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Advanced Scheduling Makes its Debut in San Francisco. In 2014, San Francisco passed the country’s first Advanced scheduling law in the form of a Retail Employee Bill of Rights Ordinance....
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Alabama’s Preemptive Law Voids Birmingham’s Minimum Wage Ordinance Last year, two days after Birmingham, AL passed an increased minimum wage ordinance city-wide, the State Legislature passed a preemptive employment law....
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HB 2 also preempted local employment laws, including sick leave and minimum wage. While most people are familiar with the controversy that HB 2 created last year (spoiler alert: we...
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Advanced, Predictive Scheduling, or Restrictive Scheduling Although the movement started out slow with a San Francisco showdown in 2014, the movement for advanced scheduling has gained traction and is inciting...
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Local Minimum Wage Ordinance Struck Down by Supreme Court The last three years have been eventful for Louisville and Lexington employers. The Kentucky employers traversed through a roller coaster of...
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Counties in Iowa must roll back local law to comply with new State Law On March 30, 2017, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed into law bill HF 295. The new...
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Employment Law Prevents Sick Leave Requirements on the Local Level On March 28, 2017, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed SB 668 into law. The new law is a preemptive employment...
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Local Sick Leave Laws and other Employer Benefit Laws Banned in South Carolina On April 5, 2017, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed bill SB 218 into law. The new...
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