Paid Sick and Family Leave: Multi-State Updates for Mastering Emerging Compliance Obligations

Why Should You Attend:

Do you offer paid sick leave to your employees? Currently, eight states, plus the District of Columbia, and over twenty localities have paid/earned sick/safe leave laws on their books - and that number is growing - so soon you may not have a choice.

Mandated paid sick/safe leave is gaining support. On September 7, 2015 President Obama signed a new executive order, granting up to 7 days of paid sick leave per year to employees working for federal government contractors.

On March 13, 2017, the Health Families Act, legislation that would grant many employees seven days of paid sick leave annually was introduced in Congress. Now is the time to anticipate the changes that you might need to make to your existing policies if paid sick leave comes to your jurisdiction.

In this webinar we will discuss developments related to paid sick leave and how they may affect your daily operations and workplace policies, and some recommendations for administering/managing PTO.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• What an effective, legal PTO policy looks like
• The new executive order requiring federal contractors to grant paid sick leave to employees
• Where paid sick leave laws have passed or are being considered across the country
• Requirements concerning carryover and notice/posting requirements
• PTO recommended practices on tricky issues, including partial-day absences, use of accrued PTO during furloughs, a “use it or lose it” policy, and structuring your PTO bank
• Combining PTO leave with protected leave under FMLA – the when and how to do it
• What you need to know before changing PTO accrual rates
• Cashing out unused time -- PTO counts as a wage under state law
• PTO and the exempt employee: When you can dock their pay without jeopardizing the exemption
• Legal ways to institute caps on vacation banks
• How PTO works when an employee is eligible for pregnancy disability leave or paid family leave

Who Will Benefit:

• H.R. Professionals at all levels
• Leave administrators
• Benefits administrators
• Senior Management
• Managers
• CFO’s
• Controllers
• Payroll professionals
• Business owners
• CEO’s

Janette Levey Frisch
Employment and HR Attorney, The Emplawyerologist Firm

Janette Levey Frisch is an attorney with more than 20 years’ legal experience. She works with employers on most employment law issues to ensure that employers are in the best position possible to avoid litigation, audits, employee relations problems, and the attendant, often exorbitant costs. She authors the firm’s weekly blog, where she discusses issues impacting employers today. She has written articles on many different employment law issues for many publications, including EEO Insight, Staffing Industry Review, @Law, and Chief Legal Officer.

Ms. Frisch has also spoken and trained on topics, such as criminal background checks in the hiring process, joint employment, severance arrangements, pre-employment screening among many others. She is licensed in New Jersey and New York. In addition, she serves as a Legal Wellness Professional to employers outside New Jersey and New York on almost all federal employment law issues, to enable employees to address workplace challenges before they escalate to litigation or costly audits.

Ms. Frisch is also a contributor to the recently released book, “Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team and Crush the Competition,” published by John Wiley and Sons, and authored by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska.

Janette serves as a Task Force Member of the Institute for Workplace Violence Prevention, an interdisciplinary think tank, dedicated to providing holistic, proactive solutions to employers serious about promoting a safe workplace.

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