Illinois employers with 51 or more employees are now required to provide paid leave to employees who participate in a military funeral honors detail. Employees can take up to eight hours per month—but not more than 40 hours per calendar year—to participate in these...

Starting October 1, 2025, Nebraska will have a new paid sick time (PST) law. It applies to employers with 11 or more employees who work 80 or more hours in the state in a calendar year. Below are some of the law’s key provisions. Accrual, Carryover, and Frontloading...

Delaware recently updated its antidiscrimination law to include military status as a protected characteristic. The law applies to employers with four or more employees in the state. While employers of all sizes are already prohibited from discriminating on the basis...

Missouri’s earned paid sick time (EPST) law—approved by voters last November and effective since May 1—has officially called in sick. The governor recently signed off on a bill to repeal the law, effective August 28, 2025. Employees will continue to earn paid sick...

After July 31, 2025, New York employers no longer need to provide COVID-19 sick leave and can do away with any applicable policies.

On July 4, President Trump signed the budget reconciliation bill (aka One Big Beautiful Bill Act) into law, indefinitely extending two key pre-pandemic benefits, described below. High Deductible Health Plans and Telehealth For high deductible health plans (HDHPs) that...

Beginning July 27, 2025, employers of all sizes are prohibited from requiring a driver’s license as a condition of employment or stating that applicants must have a driver’s license in a job posting. There’s an exception if driving is an essential function of the job...

Last year, California expanded its victim protection leave law and added a new notice requirement for employers of all sizes. Although the notice requirement took effect July 1, 2025, employers weren’t required to comply until the California Civil Rights Department...

The laws below were passed in the last week and took immediate effect. They apply to employers with four or more employees unless otherwise noted. GROUNDBREAKING PROTECTIONS FOR MENOPAUSE In a big move from the littlest state, Rhode Island now requires employers to...

Illinois recently expanded its Equal Pay Registration Certification requirements to apply to all private employers that have 100 or more employees in the state. Previously, employers only had to file if they had 100 or more employees in the state and also had to file...

At the last minute, the District of Columbia’s tipped minimum wage increase that was scheduled to take effect on July 1 was delayed until at least October 1, 2025. As a result, the tipped minimum wage remains at $10 per hour. The bill that made this change took...

Beginning July 2, 2025, New York City’s (NYC) Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) rules will be amended to address the state’s paid prenatal leave (PPL) law, both of which apply to employers of all sizes. Below are some of the key updates to the ESSTA rules that NYC...