Employee Rights

Starting October 1, 2015, Connecticut employers will be prohibited from requesting employees and prospective employees’ personal online accounts passwords. Under the enacted Bill 426, employers may not request or require employees or applicants to authenticate or access a personal online account in their presence, nor can they require employees or applicants to accept an invitation Read more

  by Kathleen White, Research & Compliance Attention District of Columbia employers – DC has finally released the Protecting Pregnant Workers Fairness Act(PPWFA) mandatory workplace posting. The PPWFA requires employers to provide reasonable workplace accommodations for employees whose ability to perform the functions of a job is limited by pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or a related medical condition, unless the accommodation Read more

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Viridiana Huerta, Research & Compliance The Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General requires all Massachusetts employers to post the new Earned Sick Time posting, which covers employee rights to earned sick time. The Earned Sick Time Law was approved by voters on November 4, 2014, and will be effective July 1, 2015. Read more