Salary.com Compensation & Pay Equity Law Review

Newsletter volume 2.49 December 23, 2024

Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review

Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.

Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works !

This week we're asking these questions and even answering some of them:

Can employees use paid sick leave for reproductive loss?
Why are voters deciding issues like paid sick leave?
When we make assumptions about people, do we even consider the evidence?
Why does California have such ridiculous rules about vacation and sick leave?
Who gets paid when the company is closed for weather?
What are the best names for snowplows?

December 17^th, 2024

New MA Law on Reproductive Loss

A new Massachusetts' law allows employees to take paid sick leave when they or their spouse has a miscarriage, failed adoption, or IVF loss..

December 18^th, 2024

Paid Sick Leave Coming to Nebraska

Paid sick leave is so important to employees that voters have enacted paid sick leave in Nebraska.

December 19^th, 2024

What's the Evidence?

Prejudice against another human being because of how they look, what gender they are, or any other immutable factor is thinking we know what we're doing without any evidence. There are a bunch of reasons humans do this. We're wired to make snap judgments about what is safe or not safe.

December 20^th, 2024

California Vacation Games

Employers can't force CA employees to use up their paid vacation time before taking FMLA. This is fair. The truth is, whatever the reason you are taking FMLA, it's probably no vacation.

December 23^rd, 2024

Paying Employees During Weather Closures

Winter storms can mean work closures. In case you have nothing to do, there are several places that are having contests to name their snowplows, although Plowy McPlowface, Scoop Dog, Snowbi Wan Kenobi, and Taylor Drift are already taken. But payroll must go on!

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