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A state budget that works for St. Cloud Rep. Dan Wolgamott The 2021-2022 Minnesota state budget is the most important in a generation as we work to help Minnesotans recover from the historic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m working with the Walz Administration and my legislative colleagues to pass a budget that fills the needs of St. Cloud. Last week, I held a Budget Listening Session with Revenue Commissioner Robert Doty to get direct feedback from my constituents on their priorities to help shape my decisions regarding investments in our state budget.  Rooted in what I am ...

Seyfarth Synopsis:  As expected, on Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed New York State's COVID-19 Vaccine Paid Leave Bill into law. The law took immediate effect and will expire on December 31, 2022. On March 12, Governor Cuomo  signed legislation granting public and private employees up to 4 hours of paid leave per COVID-19 vaccine injection. As reported in our prior  alert, it is not clear whether the bill, which took effect immediately, will be retroactively effective for those employees who received a COVID-19 vaccine before March 12, 2021. It is also not clear whethe...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Westchester County Human Rights Commission (the "Commission") has announced that the county's Earned Sick Leave Law, which went into effect on April 10, 2019, has been preempted by New York's Paid Sick Leave Law ("Law" or "PSLL"), which took effect on September 30, 2020. Westchester County's law had required that eligible employees accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 40 hours per year. As we previously covered, the PSLL applies to all private...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 20, 2021 – nearly a year after the law’s effective date – the New York Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) issued new guidance (the “Guidance”) for employers regarding the scope of available sick leave for employees subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19 (“Quarantine Leave”). The Guidance creates new obligations for employers in New York and clarifies certain limitations on Quarantine Leave. It is also intended to supplement other guidancepreviously issued by...

The New York DOL issued guidance for employers regarding the scope of available sick leave for employees subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19. The Guidance creates new obligations for employers and clarifies limitations on Quarantine Leave.