Offering Practical Guidance to Employers
Another year, more PSL patches. With nearly 30 patches now, and contributions from every level of government, PSL has achieved full-fledged patchwork status.
This year’s PSL highlights include:
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After a few failed attempts, Philadelphia has become part of the paid sick leave mega-trend. The Mayor signed the “Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces” Ordinance on February 12. It goes into effect 90 days after the signing.
With the proliferation of PSL laws and more on the way, and with most of them…
President Obama has unveiled a handful of proposals that would give more employees more ability to be paid when absent from work for a variety of reasons.
The President called on Congress to pass the Healthy Families Act, which would allow employees to earn up to seven days per year of paid sick time. Employees…
“Elections have consequences” goes the maxim and one of the consequences of the November 4 election is that employers in four additional jurisdictions have paid sick leave laws (PSL) to consider. The margin of approval suggests that PSL laws are widely supported by the electorate.
Massachusetts becomes the third state to enact a PSL, following…
The New Jersey Assembly is considering a bill that would put the kibosh on local government efforts to require private employers to provide employees with paid sick leave. This proposed legislation is a response to the fact that six New Jersey municipalities have enacted a “patchwork” of paid sick leave laws within the past year,…
Eighteen months ago, we posted about the developing patchwork of state and local paid sick leave (PSL) laws. I urged readers to squint a bit out over the leave-and-attendance law horizon to see this patchwork taking shape. Eighteen months later, there’s no need to squint. The patchwork is very visible, and growing.
Eighteen months ago,…
San Diego has become the tenth jurisdiction requiring employers to provide employees with paid sick leave. On August 18, 2014, the San Diego City Council overrode the mayor’s veto of the Earned Sick Leave and Minimum Wage Ordinance. The earned sick leave provisions of the ordinance are effective on April 1, 2015.
Employees who…
The Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Law has been tweaked in three respects: (1) to allow employers to determine the 50-employee applicability threshold in the same manner as under the state’s Family and Medical Leave Act, i.e., by determining whether the employer has at least 50 employees on its payroll for the week containing October 1;…
