Labor and employment attorneys Miriam McKendall and Olivia O'Dwyer co-authored an Employee Benefit Plan Review article examining recent amendments to the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law under the Act Promoting Access to Midwifery Care and Out-of-Hospital Birth Options. The article notes the...
On September 15, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”)publisheda Final Rule adopting amendments to portions of the city’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (“ESSTA”). Employers will have until October 15, 2023 to update their safe a...
Some states in the US comply with federal law, which means that employers are not entitled to provide meal or rest breaks but instead pay for any short breaks allowed. Other states require employers to provide either meal breaks or timeout breaks, and New York State is one that requires emp...
eventually passed, the law would be effective 120 days later."They are like your family"New Yorkers who spoke to CBS News New York were all in favor of the proposal."She's my fur baby. She's the love of my life ... I'm not gonna leave her at home alone if she's actively sic...
The NY sick leave law is not the same as New York Paid Family Leave (NY PFL). The NY PFL provides paid time off to employees for family- or medical-related life events (e.g., to bond with a new child). The NY state sick leave law is also separate from the New York State Quara...
NEW YORK— Should it be legal to take a sick day to care for your pet? That's what a proposed amendment to New York City's EarnedSafe and Sick Time Actwould allow. The proposal – Introduction 1089 – would make it legal for any pet owner to use sick time to care for a service ...
New York City Council Enacts Paid Sick Time Law; Employees Now Entitle...Richard J. Reibstein
The Capitol was painstakingly built over 32 years beginning in 1867, a period marked by mishap, contracting abuses and cost overruns. It was the most expensive government building of its time. Let’s close by acknowledging that New York is consistent. It had the most expensive government buildi...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat Monday by steering the case next to the state’s Republican-majority Supreme Court, raising concerns that the near-total ban on abortions will remain intact for the foreseeable future. Th...
The New York Times reported on July 21, 1969, that those efforts had come to fruition as two human beings named Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon while a captivated world watched in real time. If the Soviets weren't sure what the moment signified, the ...