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The gift of time: Is unlimited vacation leave right for your company?

11/12/2015

In the all-out battle to recruit and retain the best qualified, most highly motivated and loyal workforce, more organizations are experimenting with taking a radically flexible approach to monitoring employees’ vacation and personal leave—or even abandoning such tracking entirely.

Detail exact terms for paying out accrued but unused vacation and sick leave

11/09/2015

New York Labor Law requires employers to notify employees “in writing or by publicly posting the employer’s policy on sick leave, vacation, personal leave, holidays and hours.” If employers do so, then the written policy governs whether the employee is entitled to payment of unused leave on termination.

Pittsburgh enacts law granting paid sick leave

11/03/2015

Pittsburgh has passed a sweeping ordinance granting paid sick leave to employees of almost every private employer based in the city. The ordinance covers both full- and part-time workers.

Unlimited vacation has bottom-line benefit

10/14/2015

A handful of employers let workers take as much time off as they want, as long as the work gets done. While most of those companies view unlimited vacation as a great perk that helps reward and retain talented and hard-working employees, there’s another reason to offer it.

D.C. bill would provide 16 weeks of paid leave, the most in U.S.

10/13/2015

Legislation before the Washington, D.C., City Council would grant District residents 16 weeks of paid family and medical leave, the most generous leave mandate in the nation.

Take off (or not): Paid leave is relatively rare

10/12/2015

Almost every employer offers employees a handful of paid holidays. Otherwise, less than half of employers offer paid leave benefits.

DOL grants to fund research on paid sick and family leave

10/06/2015

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau has awarded $1.55 million in grants to eight state and local employment and labor departments to research and analyze how paid leave programs can be developed and implemented across the country.

Executive order grants paid sick leave to fed contractors’ employees

09/09/2015

President Obama picked Labor Day to announce an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave benefits to their employees, including 300,000 workers who currently have no paid leave.

California’s paid sick leave amendment requires 3 days’ leave per year

08/26/2015

An amendment to California’s Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 requires employers to offer employees three days or 24 hours of paid sick leave per year. The original law required employers to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, or to provide an up-front allocation of at least 24 hours. The accrual requirement created a big headache, since most employers do not accrue paid time off on a per-hour basis.

The paid leave movement marches on

07/14/2015

Paid sick leave is quickly catching on as a must-have benefit, driven by both government mandates and business realities. But is there a downside?