The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General has released the new 2019 Wage and Hour Laws Notice. The notice has been slightly reformatted and updated with new scheduled minimum wage rates. During the 2018 Massachusetts legislative session, House Bill 4640 was passed to increase the minimum wage rate for the next five years. The updated notice Read more
On January 1, 2017, Vermont will become the fifth state to require employers to provide employees with paid sick leave, following Connecticut, California, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Vermont ‘s paid sick leave law will eventually provide employees with five days (40 hours) of paid sick leave per year, but employers will have plenty of time to prepare 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
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed the Parental Leave Bill. The new law amends the Maternity Leave Act by extending the eight weeks of job-protected leave for the adoption or birth of a child to a male employee, and expanding on other provisions. Like the Maternity Leave Act, employees are required Read more
For the first time in seven years, the minimum wage rate in the state of Massachusetts increased from $8.00 per hour to $9.00 per hour on January 1, 2015. The minimum wage rate increase is the first in a series of three annual increases required by a bill signed in 2014 by Governor Deval Patrick: Read more
On November 4, 2014, Massachusetts voters approved paid sick leave law. Massachusetts has now become the third state to adopt a statewide paid sick leave. The law is effective, July 1, 2015 and applies to all private sector employers. The requirements, however, will depend on the company’s size. Employers with 11 or more employees must Read more
A bill raising the Massachusetts minimum wage cleared the Committee on Labor and Workforce Development last week. This move will likely create a vote in the Senate on the first Massachusetts minimum wage hike in four years. Senate Bill 951 calls for a minimum wage increase in July 2012 to $9.50 per hour and an Read more
