Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to provide an overview of the past year’s most significant labor and employment decisions and emerging areas of the law in the United States. On 5 December 2018 at 4 p.m. GMT (5 p.m. CET, 11 a.m. EST, 8 a.m. PST) Jill Kirila, our US Labor & Employment Practice … Continue Reading
California employers, take note. Emergency legislation amending and clarifying certain provisions of the recently-effective Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act was signed into law Monday (July 13) by Governor Brown, and went into effect immediately. Among other changes, AB 304 amends the Act as follows: Regarding accrual of sick leave: Provides that an employer may use … Continue Reading
Although a few states – most notably California – as well as a handful of cities have passed legislation requiring that employers provide paid sick leave benefits to employees, federal law presently does not mandate that employers offer this benefit. (The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requires that certain employers provide time off … Continue Reading