Employment Law and Compliance

Only a couple of months after Chicago passed their Sick Leave Ordinance and around the same time that the Cook County Sick Leave Ordinance also passed, the State of Illinois also passed three laws aimed at protecting leave for employees. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of what employers with employees…

Chicago Sick Leave Ordinance:Compliance and Rules On June 22, 2016 Chicago, Ill. became the second city in the Midwest to enact a Sick Leave Ordinance this year, following Minneapolis. The ordinance applies to all employees working within city limits. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2017. Only 3 months later, Cook County followed…

St Paul Passes Earned Sick & Safe Time and What it Means for Employers The St Paul, MN. City Council passed the Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) Ordinance on September 7, 2016. The new ordinance requires employers to provide paid time to employees. St Paul is the second city in Minnesota to create mandatory…

The City of Pasadena passes minimum wage ordinance that escalates the minimum wage for employees working inside the Pasadena city limits. For employers who have 26 or more employees, the new minimum wage is steeper than the California State Minimum wage law. The new law went into effect July 1, 2016, and applies to any…

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of SwipeClock.  In an ironic twist of fate and unlikely coincidence, UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s most liberal universities is getting a lesson in real-life economics. Just one week after Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a…

Santa Monica Paid Sick Leave Ordinance takes effect Jan 1, 2017, with annual changes. Santa Monica jumps on the slew of minimum wage and paid sick leave ordinances spreading across the State of California. Despite state regulations, which implemented sick leave laws state-wide, Santa Monica has put into law a wider and higher awarding system…

Kin Care Updates to align with California Paid Sick Leave Law California has an abundance of labor laws that can make it difficult for many businesses to know with certainty that they are in compliance. The recent updates of sick leave ordinances across many cities in California are only in addition to the California Paid…

The City of San Diego Sick Leave Laws took effect July 11, 2016. The measure was passed June 7th, which gave businesses little time to scramble for compliance with the new laws. Albeit, the State of California also has sick leave laws, there are some key differences between the new San Diego Sick Leave Laws…

Yesterday’s elections ended what has been a highly headed and controversial races. Imbedded in several state laws were included minimum wage increases. Maine, Arizona, and Colorado all voted to increase the minimum wages in those states to $12 an hour. Washington voted to increase minimum wage to $13.50 an hour. Conversely, South Dakota had a…