Employers in Cook County, Illinois, must soon provide paid leave to all employees who work in the county and allow the leave to be used for any reason an employee chooses.
A recently signed law creates a rebuttable presumption than an employer has unlawfully retaliated against an employee if the employer takes adverse actions shortly after the employee engaged in certain protected activities.
Starting in 2024, a new law will require California employers to provide employees up to five days of leave following a miscarriage, stillbirth, failed adoption, failed surrogacy or unsuccessful assisted reproduction.
Amendments to the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (HWHFA) will increase the number of paid sick and safe days to which employees are entitled from three to five starting in 2024.
New York will soon require employers to provide employees notice of unemployment benefits, prohibit employers from demanding social media or email logins, and increase the weekly salary threshold for exemptions from wage payment laws.
Legislation recently signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will expand leave for bereaving a child and for mourning victims of violent crime; establish new leave for organ donation; and provide protections for freelance workers and temporary workers.
The NLRB has returned to an old standard under which work rules that do not explicitly target workers' rights may still be found to violate federal labor law if workers would "reasonably construe" them to bar organizing.
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