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Maryland General Assembly Passes Veto-Proof Sick Leave Legislation

Kollman & Saucier

04/07/2017

Legislative Developments, Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, Paid Leave, State Law

The Maryland General Assembly this week passed the Healthy Working Families Act, which all but guarantees that come 2018, employees in Maryland will be entitled to sick leave. The bill was passed with veto-proof margins in both the Senate (29-18) and the House of Delegates (87-53), which means the General Assembly can override Governor Hogan’s anticipated veto when it reconvenes next year. Below is a summary of the bill which would take effect...

Kollman & Saucier

04/04/2017

State Law

Last night the North Carolina Tar Heels won their sixth NCAA championship. This, despite relocation of initial tournament rounds away from Tar Heel state in response to H.B. 2, a controversial law passed by North Carolina that restricted LGBT protections and barred transgender individuals from using restrooms that matched their gender identity. On March 30, 2017, following a year of major economic damage due to organizations-- including the...

Kollman & Saucier

03/17/2017

Legislative Developments, State Law

There is a little over a month left before the Maryland General Assembly adjourns its 2017 legislative session. Below is a list of some of the employment-related bills that thelegislature is considering or has considered. House Bill 1, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, was summarized in a previous blog post. HB 1 has passed the House and is being considered by the Senate. HB 1 was cross-filed with Senate Bill 230, which the Senate...

Kollman & Saucier

02/06/2017

Legislative Developments, State Law

In January, Maryland lawmakers proposed H.B. 398 and S.B. 404 to amend Maryland’s Equal Pay Act. The Act, codified at Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Emp. § 3-301 et seq., generally prohibits discrimination in pay based on sex or gender identity for employees who work in the same establishment and perform similar jobs or work on the same operation, in the same business, or of the same type. Under § 3-304.1 of the Act, employers are...

Kollman & Saucier

01/09/2017

Disability & Leave, Employee Benefits, Legislative Developments, Paid Leave, State Law

Lawmakers in Maryland have attempted to pass a paid sick leave bill for a number of years. With the General Assembly reconvening on Wednesday, the effort is being renewed this year. Thus far, legislators have introduced House Bill 1 and House Bill 65 -- both are versions of the Healthy Working Families Act, which was introduced last session as House Bill 580. Governor Hogan has said that he will introduce paid sick leave legislation of his...

Kollman & Saucier

08/06/2016

Employment Discrimination, State Law

This week Massachusetts became the first state to ban employers from asking job applicants about salary history prior to making a job offer. The new law aims to narrow the state’s gender wage gap by making it illegal for employers to: Prohibit discussion about employee wages in the workplace; Screen applicants based on wage or request disclosure of prior wage history; Seek a prospective employee’s salary history from a former employer;...

Kollman & Saucier

06/08/2016

Employment Discrimination, Joint Employer, Legislative Developments, Sex Discrimination, State Law

On May 19, Governor Hogan signed into law the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act of 2016. The law, which takes effect on October 1, 2016, amends the state’s existing wage discrimination law in several significant ways. Changes that Protect Employees There are several notable changes in the amendment that give broader protections to employees, including: Prohibiting pay discrimination because of gender identity. LGBT employees are now explicitly...

Clifford Geiger

04/13/2016

Legislative Developments, State Law

Maryland law already prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity. Likewise, Maryland already has an equal pay law. On April 9, 2016, however, the Maryland legislature passed a bill that would supplement those existing laws. This bill targets equal pay for equal work by specifically providing that an employer may not pay an employee a lower wage than an employee of another sex or gender identity if both...

Darrell VanDeusen

03/29/2016

Gender Identity, Legislative Developments, Sexual Orientation, State Law

I went to law school in North Carolina. My daughter went to college there, at a school that uses a lighter color blue than the one I went to. I have family members and dear friends who have lived in North Carolina for decades. I mention this because I love the state of North Carolina. Maybe just not some (many) of its legislators, or at least 82 of them. As I heard the author John Irving say just this past week: “if you must practice...

Kollman & Saucier

03/11/2016

Disability & Leave, FMLA, State Law

The United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia recently ruled that a Verizon employee who alleged his employer denied him leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and then fired him can pursue his state law claim for retaliatory discharge. In Vandevander v. Verizon Wireless, LLC, No. 3: 15-cv-11540 (S.D.W.Va., March 7, 2016), the federal district court denied Verizon’s motion to dismiss, finding that...

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Maryland General Assembly Passes Veto-Proof Sick Leave Legislation

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