State Paid Family Leave Laws Bring the Heat for Employers This Summer

Webinar
3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern
2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Central
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Mountain
12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Pacific 

As a federal paid family leave (“PFL”) law continues to elude lawmakers on Capitol Hill, certain states are taking PFL into their own hands. On May 31, 2019, Connecticut lawmakers agreed to a state PFL law, which once signed by Governor Ned Lamont, will make Connecticut the 7th state with such a law.

PFL also has recently spread to Massachusetts, Washington, and Washington, D.C. Certain deadlines under each law, including reporting, remitting, premium collection, notice, and/or posting, begin soon.  This will be followed by major deadlines in 2020 and 2021 (depending on the law) when employees will begin using their PFL benefits.

Another recent PFL development took place in New Jersey. In February 2019, the state amended its PFL law, known as the Family Leave Insurance (“FLI”) law, in several significant ways, including expanding the number of weeks an employee can receive FLI benefits.

Please join Seyfarth Shaw’s team for an informative webinar providing a detailed look at recent and upcoming PFL developments in Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington and Washington, D.C. Topics to be covered include:

• Overview of state paid family leave laws and how they compare in terms of amount of benefits, amount of pay provided to employees, funding mechanism, covered reasons for use, and other topics.
• Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (“PFML”) discussion that will include updates on the new 3-month extension, payroll tax, process for remitting contributions to the PFML Trust Fund, employee notice requirements, and private plan exemption application process. 
• Highlights of the newly enacted Connecticut Paid Family and Medical Leave Law.
• Expansion of New Jersey’s paid family leave law, which began in February 2019 and continues throughout 2020.
• Update on the Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave law, including the premium requirement, reporting and remitting deadline, and benefit start date in January 2020.
• Washington, D.C. Paid Family Leave developments and deadlines.

If you have any questions, please contact Cassie Peterson at clpeterson@seyfarth.com and reference this event.

*CLE Credit for this webinar has been awarded in the following states: CA, IL, NJ and NY. CLE Credit is pending for GA, TX and VA. Please note that in order to receive full credit for attending this webinar, the registrant must be present for the entire session.