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On November 23, 2021, the New York City Council passed a bill requiring New York City employers to provide employees who are parents or legal guardians of a child with four hours of...

New York City Council passed a bill requiring New York City employers to provide employees who are parents or legal guardians of a child with four hours of paid COVID-19 child vaccination time, per injection and per child Child Vaccination Leave.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to sign a bill passed by City Council that requires employers to provide workers with paid time off to get their children vaccinated or care...

This article is a revised version of our March 18, 2021 publication. Really … another new paid leave requirement from New York? Yes indeed. On Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Cuomo signed a new law amending New York’s Labor Law and granting employees up to four hours of paid leave per COVID-19 vaccine injection. The law became effective immediately, and the new leave entitlement is currently set to expire on Dec. 31, 2022. The idea is to encourage New Yorkers to get vaccinated. Under thi...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York employers must now grapple with  another new paid leave requirement from New York State.  A new law signed by Governor Cuomo on March 12, 2021 amends New Yorks Labor Law and entitles employees up to four hours of paid leave  per COVID-19 vaccine injection.  The law is effective immediately, and the laws leave entitlement is...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York employers must now grapple with  another new paid leave requirement from New York State.  A new law signed by Governor Cuomo on March 12, 2021 amends New York’s Labor Law and entitles employees up to four hours of paid leave  per COVID-19 vaccine injection.  The law is effective immediately, and the law’s leave entitlement is set to expire on December 31, 2022. We note key provisions of t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 crimin...