Jennifer Czajka

Joined: June 21, 2024
Articles: 4

Paid Sick Leave Updates

California Expands Paid Sick Leave Protections For 2025

At the end of California’s 2023 legislative session, the legislature significantly expanded the state’s Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (HWHFA), primarily by providing more leave. Those amendments went into effect on January 1, 2024. This year, Governor Newsom signed bills into law that expand paid sick leave protections.

Jennifer Czajka
October 23, 2024

Paid Sick Leave Updates

Michigan DOL Publishes Updated Paid Sick Leave Materials as Amended Law’s February 2025 Effective Date Looms

Effective February 21, 2025, Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) will replace the Paid Medical Leave Act (“PMLA”). As detailed in our prior update, the ESTA is a significantly more pro-employee mandate than the current standards under the PMLA, and it will provide more generous paid sick leave rights than many other states.

Jennifer Czajka
October 10, 2024

Paid Sick Leave Updates

Massachusetts Expands Covered Sick Time Reasons to Include Reproductive Loss Events

Effective November 21, 2024, Massachusetts employers must allow employees to use Massachusetts Earned Sick Time to address the employee’s or the employee’s spouse’s physical or mental health needs related to pregnancy loss or a failed assisted reproduction, adoption, or surrogacy.

Jennifer Czajka
October 2, 2024

Paid Sick Leave Updates

Michigan Supreme Court Resuscitates State’s Earned Sick Time Act of 2018

On July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Mothering Justice et al. v. Attorney General et al., holding in a 4-3 ruling that Michigan’s current paid sick leave law, the Paid Medical Leave Act, is unconstitutional and reinstating the State’s Earned Sick Time Act of 2018. This resolved nearly six years of uncertainty as to the status of paid sick leave in Michigan.

Jennifer Czajka
August 2, 2024

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Jennifer Czajka

California Expands Paid Sick Leave Protections For 2025

Michigan DOL Publishes Updated Paid Sick Leave Materials as Amended Law’s February 2025 Effective Date Looms

Massachusetts Expands Covered Sick Time Reasons to Include Reproductive Loss Events

Michigan Supreme Court Resuscitates State’s Earned Sick Time Act of 2018

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