Starting January 1, Colorado employers must comply with new pay transparency requirements in job postings and internal promotional notices. The new law includes various notification requirements for current employees. Colorado Department of... Read more »
Quick Hits Alabama has enacted a law to make overtime compensation exempt from the state income tax. The new law will only apply to income for work performed on or after January... Read more »
Topics: Employee Leave, Legal Information, New Laws & Legislation On January 1, 2024, Senate Bill (SB) 616 goes into effect and expands paid sick leave (“PSL”) for almost all California employers and... Read more »
On December 14, 2023, the Cook County Board of Commissioners (“Board”) passed the Cook County Paid Leave Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which converts the pre-existing Cook County Earned Sick Leave Ordinance into an... Read more »
On December 12, 2023, California’s Labor Commissioner revised its FAQs to address changes that will occur on January 1, 2024, to the Healthy Workplaces Healthy Families Act (HWHFA), the statewide paid sick... Read more »
Civil rights lawyer and scholar, Sherrilyn Ifill, recently wrote a didactic essay for The New York Review entitled “How America Ends and Begins Again: Because so much of what we have come... Read more »
A former Princeton University student was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and interfering with police officers trying to hold off a... Read more »
A Maryland police officer has been arrested on charges that he assaulted police during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Michael Kunzelman reports for the Associated Press. The Montgomery... Read more »
Kansas Proud Boys leader William Chrestman pleaded guilty Monday to obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening a federal officer during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol Building. Chrestman’s... Read more »