Just weeks after signing legislation bumping up the state minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024, Governor Phil Murphy doubled the state mandated Paid Family Leave earlier this week. On Tuesday, Murphy signed an expansion of the paid family leave law increasing the amount of time an employee may take off under the law…
Read More »As evidence of the above comment, the states of Arizona and Washington added themselves to the litany of states mandating that private employers provide paid leave to their employers. In Washington, Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law earlier this week that provides eligible employees with 12 weeks of paid time off for the…
Read More »Last week, the Department of Labor (DOL) tipped their hand by sending one of their executives to Massachusetts to testify in support of a legislative proposal mandating sick leave for all private sector employees. This week, they threw in for “the full Monty” with the department formally proposing a rule that will mandate paid sick…
Read More »In some states where the minimum wage has already been dramatically increased (subject to judicial and other challenges – think New York), elected officials have looked at mandating paid sick leave and predictive scheduling as the next frontiers in fighting “income inequality”. Maryland Senate majority leader Catherine Pugh (D-Baltimore) is a prime example. She announced…
Read More »It’s been percolating in several state houses and city halls around the country and now, Congress is getting into the Mandatory Sick Leave business. Last week, sick leave legislation was filed in both the US Senate and the House of Representatives. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) filed the so-called Healthy Families Act, which would mandate that…
Read More »It began back in 2006 when San Francisco mandated paid sick leave for every worker in the city at a rate of 1 hour paid leave earned for every 30 hours worked. It was followed by Washington, DC and Milwaukee just 2 years later. (The Milwaukee law was never implemented and after Wisconsin Governor Scott…
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