– COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
While Statewide supplemental paid sick leave that was passed last year for food sector and other workers expired on December 31, 2020, the legislature has bills pending to resurrect this leave.
These bills would extend the COVID-19 food sector supplemental paid sick leave for food sector workers as well as the COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave for other covered workers, if those workers are unable to work or telework due to certain reasons related to COVID-19 and meet specified conditions.
– Bereavement Leave
This bill would require an employer with 25 or more employees to grant an employee up to 10 business days of unpaid bereavement leave upon the death of a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or registered domestic partner. AB 95 also would require an employer with fewer than 25 employees to grant up to 3 business days of unpaid bereavement leave.
US State Employment Laws Effective as of January 2021
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While state legislatures focused much-needed attention on pandemic-related legislation throughout most of 2020, many continued to alter their employment laws in significant ways, or simply had previously passed laws scheduled to take effect at the start of 2021.
Some of the most prominent trends at the state and local level include creating or expanding paid leave benefits, pay equity, and anti-discrimination rules; restricting criminal background checks; and limiting the scope of non-compete laws. Employers should review these developments and consider updating their policies and procedures accordingly.
This Advisory provides a summary of major employment-related laws that take effect in 2021 in the following states and localities:[1]
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Arizona’s minimum wage will increase by fifteen cents per hour to $12.15 per hour on January 1, 2021. This is because the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act provides for a cost-of-living increase on January 1 of each year after 2020.
This means that Arizona employers will need to start paying the higher minimum wage for all hours worked after January 1, 2021. Although workers who are tipped can be paid at a lower hourly rate, their total compensation, including tips, must be equal to or greater than Arizona’s minimum wage.
Some Arizona cities, such as Flagstaff, have a higher minimum wage. On January 1, 2021, Flagstaff employers must pay $15.00 per hour.
Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | blogs.law.nyu.edu
WASHINGTON Prominent civil rights groups are bringing wide-ranging policy agendas to Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden, with two of them also agitating for more Black appointees to top Cabinet posts. That, at least, was met with a Cabinet nomination for Rep. Marcia Fudge on Dec. 9.
Among the top, boldfaced items on one list, from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Passing the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform since the original National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The New Poor People’s Campaign unveiled the other comprehensive list.
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