Louisiana
This guide provides an overview of legal requirements related to group life insurance and disability benefits in Louisiana.
Louisiana does not have a state family and medical leave law applicable to private-sector employers. This guide provides information on pregnancy leave and leave for veterans' medical appointments.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of workers' compensation requirements in Louisiana, including those related to workplace posters, covered employers and employees, compensable injuries, employer defenses to claims, medical and other benefits, claims procedures, retaliation and interference protections, and dispute resolution.
Louisiana employers seeking to explain how the handbook and supplement should be read together and that neither the handbook nor the supplement alter an employee's at-will status should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers wishing to limit or prohibit weapons in the workplace, prevent workplace violence, provide notice that weapons will not be permitted inside the workplace and to show their compliance with the Louisiana law that gives employees the right to keep a lawfully possessed firearm inside a locked personal vehicle in a company parking lot should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers seeking to educate employees about their right to access certain records related to employee exposures to potentially toxic materials and to demonstrate compliance with Louisiana law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers that provide paid vacation and seek to indicate that Louisiana employees will receive pay for accrued but unused vacation upon termination of employment should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers that employ 20 or more employees and seek to educate employees about the availability of bone marrow donor leave and to show their compliance with Louisiana's bone marrow donor leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers that wish to provide employees with leave to attend the school or daycare conferences or classroom activities of their children or legal wards should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Louisiana employers seeking to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of jury duty leave and to demonstrate their compliance with Louisiana's jury duty leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.