Medical Leave

Each year, more states and communities are requiring employers to provide their workers with sick leave benefits to care for themselves or family members who are ill or injured. This year, Illinois follows the trend with its own Employee Sick Leave Act. The Act doesn’t give workers any additional time off, but it does require Read more

WHAT IS THE ZIP CODE PROJECT? The Zip Code Project sets up a district-wide “foot patrol” to educate employers and increase compliance with District labor laws and in particular the Wage Theft Prevention Amendment Act (WTPAA). The WTPAA went into effect February 26, 2015 and requires employers to post a WTPAA specific notice in the Read more

Compliance with the regulations and requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA” or “ACA”) is complicated, particularly for small businesses. Fortunately, the federal government has a simple, one-stop Health Care Changes website to provide employers of all sizes with state-by-state information on their options and responsibilities under Affordable Care Act. The website Read more

Effective October 1, 2014, employers in Maryland with 15 to 49 employees, will be required to provide employees with job-protected unpaid leave for the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child under the state’s new Parental Leave Act (PLA) (SB  737).  The amount of protected unpaid leave under the PLA is only six Read more