The Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act signed by the President on March 18, 2020, requires non-healthcare provider employers with less than 500 employees to give up to 12-weeks of job-protected leave to parents to care for their children necessitated by school/daycare closures or loss of childcare due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) health …
Tough times call for tough measures. Many employers will rely on this adage to avoid their obligations under Massachusetts law during the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Massachusetts law generally requires employers to pay all wages and accrued vacation on the day that someone is laid off, not per the usual billing cycle. Employees …
The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision this week rendering au pairs in Massachusetts subject to the state’s wage and hour laws, which require that an employee be paid a minimum of $12.00 for each hour worked up to and including 40 hours in a single week and $18.00 for each hour thereover. …
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The Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Act) was approved by the legislature last summer and went into effect April 1, 2018. If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, please make yourself aware of your civil rights under the Act, and plan how you are going to exercise them. ACCOMMODATIONS A pregnant …
Given the recent steps announced by Mayor Bill DeBlasio of New York City to increase the number of Black and Latino students at the city’s most elite public schools and the constitutional implications such a proposition brings, it might serve Brookline well to understand how it is addressing race in its own school district. Examining …
Spring – actual spring – has finally reared its little head. The official start to the season this year, March 20th, was like a baby's due date: Unreliable. It's no matter now, we’ve forgotten winter already; we have budding life all around us. As busy as the birds and bees this time of year, many …
Beginning July 1, 2018, women – and men – can seek equal payment of “wages” regardless of gender under the newly revised Massachusetts Equal Pay Act (Equal Pay Act). Originally passed in 1945, the Equal Pay Act was at the time the first state law requiring equal pay for equal work. Continuing this tradition as …
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