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...
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...
About 1 in 4 Americans are taking family leave to care for a sick family member
A new study out from Pew provides some insights about Americans' caregiving as relates to their jobs. Some of the findings: About...
"I was bullied and retaliated against for reporting sales integrity issues."
I don't write about my own clients for obvious reasons. The recent news stories about retaliation against whistleblowing Wells Fargo...
AG sued over the Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
A Cambridge-based au pair agency and a host family sued Attorney General Maura Healey last week to stop the application of the...
Paid parental leave: the state of the US/Massachusetts v the world
The Washington Post recently had a story and some nice graphics comparing paid maternity leave laws across the world. It noted that the...
Work stress is starting to affect my health. Is there anything legally I can do about it?
To begin, you're not alone. National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health...
Q&A on the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law
One year ago, on July 1, 2015, the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law went into effect. As of July 1, 2015 (or if you started work after...