Labor & Employment Law

House Passes Bill to Provide Paid Leave for Some New Parents
Broadsheet (Salon.com): House passes paid leave for some new parents, by Katharine Mieszkowski: The House approved a bill that would offer federal employees four weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child...

House Passes Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act
The House has just passed the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, H.R. 5781 by a vote of 278-146. This legislation will help families by providing four weeks of paid parental leave to federal and congressional employees...

Law: Paid Family Leave comes to New Jersey
An advisory from New Jersey defense attorney Steve Gerber: Dear clients and colleagues: On May 2, 2008, Governor Jon Corzine signed the Paid Family Leave Act, (the "PFLA"), making New Jersey the third state that provides workers with paid family...

Maryland Family Leave Act
On Oct. 1, 2008, the Maryland Family Leave Act became effective. The Act supplements the FMLA. For example, it requires FMLA leave to be paid if the employer offers paid leave. However, this new statute also raises a lot of...

New Jersey Becomes The 3rd State To Require PAID Family and Medical Leave
On May 2, 2008, N. J. Governor Jon S. Corzine signed into law a statute which mandates PAID family and medical leave. It is the third such program in the country and will be financed by payroll deductions...

NJ Becomes 2nd State To Mandate Paid Family Leave For Homosexual Partners
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) Friday signed broad legislation that mandates paid family leave for same-sex partners - making the state the second after California to have such a law.

The Best Worst Paid Leave Policy Ever
A Reuters story this morning deals with what is both one of the most liberal paid leave policies I have ever seen and also one of the most blatantly discriminatory. Hime & Company, a Tokyo-based marketing firm, offers paid leave to employees who have a bad breakup, termed “heartache leave”...

Ohio paid sick leave initiative
Advocates have been pushing for paid sick days since the Family & Medical Leave Act was passed eleven years ago, requiring employers to give employees up to 12 weeks unpaid leave a year, an MSNBC article last Wednesday morning said...

House Closing
Sealing a home sale

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Florida State Settles with Feds over Disclosure of Personal Driver Info
Florida State Settles with Feds over Disclosure of Personal Driver Info

Nestle USA
Recalls Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough Products

Lighter Blamed in House Fire
Cricket Lighters settles $200,00 wrongful death lawsuit.

Department of Education Fraud
$4.25 million settlement to be paid in whistleblower lawsuit.

Teachers Paid
LA School District pays 8% interest to teachers for payroll problems.