August 10, 2017
Paid Family Leave

Is This Paid Family Leave's Moment?

Laurie Berke-Weiss and Alex Berke were excited to discuss paid family leave on the Akerman WorkedUp Podcast, hosted by Matthew Steinberg.  Listen to them discuss the recent proliferation of state and local paid family leave statutes; paid family leave and the progressive movement; how millennials are shaping the debate; federal paid family leave proposals; benefits v. compliance for employers; and paid family leave law litigation and enforcement trends.

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Telecommuting & NYS Workers’ Compensation: What Employers & Employees Need to Know

August 25, 2020
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New social distancing norms and efforts to limit the number of people in workplaces as a result of COVID-19 has resulted in a major increase of employees working from home. How does NYS workers’ compensation cover telecommuters?

The New Parenting

August 24, 2020
Paid Family Leave
Pregnancy Discrimination
This week, we’re going to spotlight one of the hot button issues at the intersection of employment and pandemic: how parents are going to cope in a fall without schools.

This Week’s FFCRA Complaints: The Wrongful Terminations Continue 

August 21, 2020
Leave
Disability Discrimination
Since we started this weekly blog post in May, we've read and summarized over 50 complaints filed under the new leave law. As we’ve pointed out, many of these complaints follow almost a template, with workers being terminated for either taking legally-allowed precautions to protect fellow workers from potential infection or for having legitimate reasons to take leave, often to care for a family member or child.
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