While significant bills impacting Connecticut employers were signed into law, proposed employer mandates on pay transparency, paid sick leave, and predictive scheduling failed to gain the necessary votes for passage in 2023.
After clearing necessary procedural and financial hurdles this week, Maine is set to enact one of the broadest and most generous paid family and medical leave programs in the country.
For the past several years, we have reported on employment and labor laws taking effect mid-year. Increasingly, new compliance challenges are not taking a summer vacation.
The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed an employer’s appeal of a finding that an employee who was on a temporary leave at the time of an injury was entitled to receive long-term disability benefits, which were included in the group benefits plan.
Approximately one year ago, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Time to Care Act of 2022, adopting a statewide family and medical leave program. The governor approved modifications to the program on May 3, 2023.
Despite the absence of the previously promised Employment Bill, new Bills that will, if passed, make changes to employment laws, have been coming thick and fast over the last few months.
