Alabama

• Alabama Department of Labor modifies unemployment compensation rules
  3.24.20

California

• FAQs about California’s vaccine mandate for health care workers
  9.20.21
• Regular rate must be paid for missed meal-rest periods, CA Supreme Court says
  California Snapshot , 8.12.21
• New CA law gives recall priority to workers laid off because of COVID
  4.27.21
• California employment law round-up Q1 2021
  4.26.21
• California extends, expands COVID-related supplemental paid sick leave
  3.25.21
• Nine areas for CA employers to watch in 2021
  California Snapshot , 2.3.21
• California adds benefits and protections for “qualifying exigency” leave related to military service
  12.10.20
• Think your commission-only plan is good?
  California Snapshot , 12.3.20
• Cal/OSHA Board adopts Temporary Emergency Standard to protect workers from COVID-19
  12.2.20
• Californians take another step toward European-style privacy protection with the CPRA
  11.24.20
• CA employers face yet more requirements on COVID and leave
  California Snapshot , 9.28.20
• UPDATED - CA expands supplemental COVID-19 paid sick leave
  California Snapshot , 9.21.20
• Will California give time off to more employees?
  California Snapshot , 9.3.20
• California mandates supplemental paid COVID-19 leave for food workers
  California Snapshot , 4.24.20
• LA tries to close gap left by Families First
  California Snapshot , 4.8.20
• City of San Francisco rolls out its own paid sick leave program
  California Snapshot , 3.30.20
• All of California now in shelter-in-place mode
  California Snapshot , 3.20.20
• Local governments try to mitigate virus spread
  California Snapshot , 3.18.20
• San Francisco and state EDD rally to aid employers, employees 
  California Snapshot , 3.18.20
• Governor suspends 60-day notice requirement in Cal-WARN
  California Snapshot , 3.18.20
• Security checks are compensable "work" time, Court says
  California Snapshot , 2.17.20
• Employers need to start caring about arbitrator disclosure.
  California Snapshot , 11.19.19
• Employers can start an arbitration program after being sued . . .
  California Snapshot , 11.12.19
• Mandatory arbitration agreements may no longer be enforceable
  California Snapshot , 11.5.19
• Employers OTO get ready.
  California Snapshot , 10.31.19

Colorado

• Colorado’s new equal pay law will take effect January 1. Are you ready?
  12.18.20
• Colorado’s expansive paid sick leave law begins to take effect
  7.21.20
• COLORADO DIRECTS RESIDENTS TO STAY AT HOME
  3.26.20
• Colorado Employers Ordered to Reduce In-person Workforce by Fifty Percent
  3.24.20
• Denver Issues a Stay-at-Home Order Requiring All Non-Essential Businesses to Cease In-Person Activities
  3.24.20

Florida

• Florida expands requirement for reporting new hires, independent contractors to Department of Revenue
  10.12.21

Georgia

• Governor Kemp Signs Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act
  8.7.20
• Georgia legislature passes “COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act”
  6.29.20
• Georgia and Atlanta Issue Executive Orders Advising Residents to “Stay at Home”
  3.25.20

Illinois

• Illinois Biometric Act has been a class action nightmare, but things may get better
  7.19.21
• Illinois issues model harassment training program
  Employment & Labor Insider, 5.5.20
• Employment-related COVID-19 Litigation Has Begun
  4.22.20
• Illinois Enacts Measures to Address COVID-19
  3.23.20
• Illinois employers, get ready!
  Employment & Labor Insider, 1.14.20

Indiana

• New Year's resolutions for employers
  Employment & Labor Insider, 1.10.20

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Emergency Paid Sick Leave for COVID-19 is extended until April 1, 2022
  10.1.21
• Massachusetts COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Leave law takes effect 
  6.4.21
• Emergency regulations issued on MA Paid Family and Medical Leave law
  12.31.20
• Creating a “leave administrator” under Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave program
  12.29.20
• Massachusetts releases amended proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave regulations
  7.24.20
• Massachusetts may have relief for some unemployed H-1B workers
  4.9.20
• Massachusetts orders closure of all non-essential businesses and implements emergency unemployment regulations to combat COVID-19
  3.23.20
• Massachusetts rings in the new year with new employment laws
  1.7.20

Missouri

• New Missouri law requires leave for victims of domestic violence
  9.22.21
• Missouri Enacts Stay-At-Home Order
  4.6.20

New Jersey

• New Jersey WARN Act now excludes mass layoffs caused by national emergency and delays effective date of 2019 amendments
  Constangy FYI, 4.15.20

New York

• Employers in the Empire State: Time to activate your NY HERO Act safety plan
  9.24.21
• An Employer's Guide to the New York HERO Act
  5.11.21
• New York City set to end at-will employment for fast food workers
  12.28.20
• Federal court vacates part of DOL’s regs interpreting FFCRA
  8.4.20
• New York shortens paid time off for voting
  4.22.20
• Governor’s Office Issues Guidance on New York COVID-19 Quarantine Leave Law
  3.21.20

North Carolina

• Employers with NC employees, take note: Wage payment requirements have changed
  8.4.21
• Gov. Cooper signs bill limiting business liability for COVID-19 claims
  7.6.20
• North Carolina eases requirements for unemployment claims due to COVID-19
  3.18.20

South Carolina

• South Carolina continues to expand availability of unemployment benefits
  4.13.20

Tennessee

• In-person court proceedings in Tennessee suspended through April 30
  Constangy FYI, 3.26.20

Texas

• Texas Governor issues "no-mandate mandate" on COVID-19 vaccines
  10.13.21

Virginia

• Virginia is for lovers . . . of overtime litigation
  7.26.21
• Move over, California! A summary of new employee-friendly laws in Virginia
  12.29.20
• Virginia becomes first state to issue Emergency Temporary Standard comprehensively addressing COVID-19
  7.22.20
• Virginia Governor issues Executive Order closing recreational businesses, restaurants, and schools
  3.24.20

 

• CA agency guidance addresses employer-mandated COVID vaccinations
  4.5.21