Offering Practical Guidance to Employers
Add Philly to the quickly growing list of jurisdictions requiring employers to accommodate pregnant employees.
The Philadelphia Ordinance requires employers, upon request, to reasonably accommodate an employee “for needs related to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition” unless to do so will cause an undue hardship.
Examples of reasonable accommodation include “restroom breaks, periodic…
And then there were seven. Seven patches in the developing “paid sick leave” patchwork that we presaged months ago. It started with San Francisco in 2007. Then the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Seattle, Portland, OR, and NYC . Now, add the Jersey City, N.J. patch.
The Jersey City variation…
Add the New York City patch to the patchwork of paid sick leave laws developing around the country. We wrote about this development in an earlier post.
The NYC law, called the Earned Sick Time Act, was passed June 27, 2013, when the New York City Council overrode the mayor’s veto of the…
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill that puts the kibosh on local leave and attendance laws. House Bill 655 prevents Florida’s political subdivisions from requiring private employers to provide employees with disability, sick leave or “personal necessity” benefits, among others.
In a statement, Governor Scott said: "This bill fosters statewide uniformity, consistency and predictability…
If you look out toward the leave-and-attendance legislation horizon, and you might have to squint a bit but not much, you can see yet another patchwork beginning to take shape. This one is on paid sick days. Multi-state employers need to watch this carefully since it is certainly heading for full-fledged “patchwork” status which, when …
The Indiana Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting local government units from requiring private sector employers to provide employees “an attendance or leave policy”… “that exceeds the requirements of federal or state law, rules, or regulations.” A sponsor of SB 213 said its goal was to prevent a “hodge-podge” of different employment benefits and laws…
As the ADA’s 20th anniversary nears, let’s revisit one of its lofty goals: to place a sweeping federal blanket over the patchwork of state and federal laws that protects individuals with disabilities.
A recent Second Circuit opinion leaves no doubt that the patchwork lives on In Spiegel v. Schulmann, decided on May 6, 2010, a…
