Expanded and Extended: Massachusetts COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave
As detailed in a prior post, since the end of May 2021, employers have been required to make paid leave time available to Massachusetts...
Massachusetts COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave
On May 28, 2021, Governor Baker signed legislation providing every full-time employee up to 40 hours of job-protected, emergency paid...
Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) is here
As of January 2021, many workers in Massachusetts will be eligible to apply for paid family leave benefits and/or paid medical leave...
8 Severance Agreement Considerations for Employees
Is your Massachusetts employer showing you the door while providing you with a severance agreement to consider? It is advisable to go...
Requesting your personnel file
Generally speaking, current and former employees of Massachusetts employers have a right to request a copy of their personnel file. In...
New Massachusetts mandatory workplace safety standards
Massachusetts has announced a four-phased approach to reopening the economy amidst the COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic. The state has...
Congress passes COVID-19 related leave of absence legislation
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) went into effect on April 1, 2020. There are primarily two provisions relevant to...
Three common provisions in employers' proposed severance agreements
Employees often come to me with a proposed severance agreement and general release they received from their employers. These documents...
Donis v. American Waste Services, LLC: the Appeals Court reaffirms long-held wage law principles
A recent Massachusetts Appeals Court case reaffirms two long-held principles under the Massachusetts wage laws: that 1) certain corporate...
Salary confidentiality policies no more
I wanted to touch briefly on those employment policies sometimes found in employee handbooks that ban employees from discussing their pay...