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Updated New York Laws on Prenatal Leave, Lactation Time, and COVID Leave
The recently enacted New York budget for fiscal year 2024-25 includes provisions mandating paid employee prenatal leave and lactation break time, and repealing the state’s COVID-19 sick leave law. The provisions have different effective dates in 2024 and 2025. Paid...
How Does the New CDC Isolation Guidance Affect Employee Leave?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new guidance that individuals no longer need to isolate from work for five days following a positive COVID-19 test may raise questions with employers about what leave they are required to provide to employees with...
Form I-9 Remote Verification and Other Flexibilities End July 31, 2023
On May 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that the COVID-19 flexibilities for the Employment Eligibility Verification form (Form I-9) would expire on July 31, 2023. The announcement also...
