New York state has enacted legislation (Assembly Bill 747) that expressly prohibits employers with four or more employees from discriminating against individuals because of their gender identity or expression.  Assembly Bill 747 takes effect on February 24, 2019. 

Washington State Governor, Jay Inslee, signed into law Substitute Senate Bill 5975 (S5975), which creates the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program effective January 1, 2020. The Washington Employment Security Department (ESD) has launched a new website to provide guidance to employers, workers and healthcare providers on the new paid family and medical leave insurance program.

The Philadelphia City Council has passed the Philadelphia Fair Workweek Employment Standards Ordinance, intended to regulate scheduling practices for Philadelphia employers in the hospitality, retail and food services industries. Mayor Jim Kenney (D) signed the Ordinance on December 20, 2018.

On January 2, 2019, Michigan announced that the effective date of the minimum wage increase to $9.45 per hour will be March 29, 2019. The minimum cash wage required to be paid to tipped employees will increase to $3.59 on this same date.

In September 2018, the Michigan legislature adopted as law a proposed ballot measure that would require employers to provide their employees paid leave to be used for “sick” and “safe” time purposes, and other reasons. The law has been amended. The law, now known as the Paid Medical Leave Act, requires covered employers to provide up to 40 hours of paid medical leave per year to eligible employees.

Below is a summary of compliance requirements that recently took effect or will take effect in the next few months. For more information on these topics, please see this month’s edition of the ADP Insights & Solutions Newsletter or the Newsletter Archives. 

We heard it was complicated to find what you were looking for in the ADP TotalSource Forms Library. To address this issue and improve your experience, we moved some things around to make them easier to find.

We are happy to introduce an “online” Workers’ Comp claim reporting feature for practitioners and managers. The new feature allows practitioners and managers to complete a Workers’ Compensation Claim First Report of Injury in a user-friendly three-step process. This new process provides you with a simple, fast and efficient method for reporting a claim. No more phone calls needed!

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposal on a new federal overtime rule to determine the salary level for “white collar” exemptions — executive, administrative and professional employees — is expected in early 2019.

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, many states have amplified their sexual harassment prevention efforts, some of which require employee training. Here, we answer Frequently Asked Questions about sexual harassment training.