by Girish Anand | May 27, 2011 | State Labor Law
The Connecticut Senate this week passed—and the governor is expected to sign—legislation mandating five annual days of sick leave for "service workers," which is an extremely and confusing category according to legal experts who have examined the...
by Girish Anand | Mar 31, 2011 | State Labor Law
In November 2008 voters in Milwaukee, Wisc., approved a landmark paid sick leave initiative for employees working within the city. A subsequent legal challenge by a local business association got the measure ruled unconstitutional on technical law-writing grounds....
by Girish Anand | Jan 15, 2010 | State Labor Law
First Congress proposed a paid sick leave policy for all the nation’s businesses, but that initiative seems to have stalled behind some minor issues like health care reform and carbon transfers. Now Maine is getting into the act, and the proposal has state...
by Girish Anand | Feb 16, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
Businesses in Milwaukee are fighting a referendum that mandates up to nine days of paid sick leave for all employees working within the city. Voters overwhelmingly approved the referendum this past November, but last week a coalition of business owners got a court to...
by Girish Anand | Dec 19, 2008 | Federal Labor Law
President-elect Obama campaigned on a pledge to mandate paid sick leave at all places of work. Here’s how the president-elect’s Web site (Change.Gov) explained this: Half of all private sector workers have no paid sick days and the problem is worse for...