The Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“PFML”) has been a source of both confusion and compliance headaches for employers. While the law provides critical protections for employees who need time away from work for qualifying medical and family reasons, employers frequently stumble when trying to comply with the law. Below, we examine the
Massachusetts continues to be one of the most active and technical states for employment law compliance. In this episode of From Lawyer to Employer, host Dan Schwartz is joined by Shipman partner Jared Lucan to break down the most important developments impacting employers with Massachusetts-based employees (or operations spanning both Massachusetts and Connecticut).
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Massachusetts has finalized a new salary range transparency law, An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency. If you have employees whose primary place of work is in Massachusetts, or you post roles that can be performed from Massachusetts or report to a Massachusetts worksite, this law changes how you advertise jobs and how you share
Last month, we joined forces with 17 attorneys from Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers as we opened a Boston office, right in the Prudential Center. As a result, we have been talking with our clients more about what laws in Massachusetts may be overlooked by employers. Time and again, three issues keep coming up. Here’s