On Feb. 24, 2023, in Wood v. Kaiser Found. Hosps., the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District held that claims for paid sick leave in California may be brought under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Paid sick leave is available to California workers under the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of
Governor Polis recently signed two laws affecting Colorado employers and employees. First, the Job Application Fairness Act (JAFA) prohibits all Colorado employers from requesting certain information related to prospective employees’ age, as well as education attendance and graduation, on an initial employment application, beginning July 1, 2024. Second, Colorado’s paid sick leave law, the Healthy
California employers know the holidays bring chilly nights (by California standards), holiday cheer, decked halls, and… ringing in the New Year with a host of new employment laws and compliance challenges. Here’s a summary of what we believe are some key aspects of new legislation that employers should be aware of before popping the bubbly
On March 19, 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 95 into law, once again requiring employers to provide California employees with paid sick leave in connection with COVID-19. Under SB 95, employees may be entitled to up to 80 hours of this supplemental paid sick leave. The new law, codified at Labor Code § 248.2,
New York State recently enacted a paid sick and safe leave law under which employees may start taking paid leave as of Jan. 1, 2021. New York City has had, since 2014, its own paid sick and safe leave law (New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act). Thus, employers in New York City
One aspect of the new New York Paid Sick Leave Law that often does not receive attention is that portion of the law that allows an employee to take paid leave if the employee or a family member has been the victim of domestic violence or a sexual or family offense, frequently referred to as
With California employers now grappling with remote workforces, all the time and effort spent ensuring compliance with sick leave legislation – particularly at the local level – should be re-visited. For example, let’s say an employer has physical office locations in Ventura County and Orange County, and therefore has been subject to and complied with
New York state’s new paid sick leave law will mandate the payment of sick leave to employees in New York state beginning Jan. 1, 2021. As discussed below, the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time law, which has already required sick time for New York City employees, was amended this week to
On August 18, 2020, Sonoma County joined the ranks of ten other California cities and counties that have enacted local supplemental paid sick leave ordinances related to COVID-19.1 The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the Ordinance2 as an urgency ordinance, meaning it became effective immediately and shall sunset on December 31, 2020.
On July 14, 2020, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed SB20-205, known as the “Healthy Families and Workplaces Act” (the Act), into law. The law is an overhaul of Colorado’s paid sick leave statutes. It requires employers to provide paid sick leave to employees under various circumstances. In addition to addressing general paid sick leave,