Tracy Billows, Joshua Seidman, Renate Walker, and Marlin Duro to Present at the American Benefits Council Webinar: State and Local Paid Leave Today and Beyond

The American Benefits Council will host a webinar on Friday, January 31, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, to examine America’s current state and local paid leave law landscape.

As federal paid family leave (“PFL”) and paid sick leave (“PSL”) laws affecting private employers continue to elude lawmakers on Capitol Hill, certain states and localities took paid leave into their own hands in 2019. For instance, PFL laws were enacted in Connecticut and Oregon, making them the 7th and 8th states respectively with such a law. PFL developments occurred and important deadlines passed in Massachusetts, Washington and Washington, D.C. PFL benefits became available to employees in Washington on January 1, and will become available to employees in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. in the coming months.

2019 also saw a number of “firsts” on the PSL front, which now boasts a patchwork of 42 state and local paid time off mandates. Significantly, 2019 PSL developments included, but were not limited to, (a) laws permitting use of paid time off for any reason, (b) separate paid sick and paid safe leave mandates issued by one jurisdiction, and (c) multiple state high courts considering or opining on PSL laws’ permissibility.

Please join American Benefits Council and Tracy Billows, Joshua Seidman, Marlin Duro, and Renate Walker, of Seyfarth Shaw, for an informative webinar on state and local PFL and PSL activity in 2019 and where both areas of law could be spreading in 2020.

We will take questions from webinar participants throughout the session and attempt to answer as many as possible. Members are encouraged to submit questions for the webinar in advance.