Offering Practical Guidance to Employers
Beginning July 25, 2021, employees can use Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave (WPFML) to care for more people.
The law originally permitted employees to get paid leave to help address the serious health condition of any “family member.” That term was defined to include:
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State and local leave laws are changing weekly and sometimes even daily! For the second time this month, Maine is adjusting its leave laws. Employers in Maine will soon be required to provide veterans with time away from work to attend scheduled appointments at Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. If paid leave is available…
This week, Governor Steve Sisolak signed a law requiring private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada to provide 0.01923 hours of paid leave for each hour an employee works. Employees must be permitted to use up to forty hours of available paid leave “without providing a reason to his or her employer.” Nevada’s…
The Maine legislature recently passed An Act Authorizing Earned Employee Leave. If Governor Mills, who has been vocal in her support of the bill, signs the bill into law, it would take effect on January 1, 2021.
The bill would require Maine employers with 10 or more employees working for more than 120 hours in…
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) reintroduced the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, which would create a national system of paid leave for employees. This is the third attempt in the last five years by these same legislators to create federal paid leave. But, with…
“Paid leave was the most prevalent employee benefit” provided by private sector employers in the United States in 2012, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report entitled “Beyond the Numbers.” The report analyzed eight categories of paid leave: holidays, vacation, sick leave, personal leave, funeral leave, jury duty leave, military leave…
