Bill Thompson marches in support of paid sick leave and a $15 minimum wage in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2023. (Missouri Workers Center) Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence.

Overview: The states that mandated paid sick or family leave for hourly workers are in mostly-white states. Given that nearly 20% of low-wage workers are Black, that means they are disproportionately ...

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) have introduced the Healthy Families Act, which would guarantee paid sick and safe leave nationally using an approach similar to that of state laws.

Gov. Ned Lamont conducted a ceremonial signing Tuesday of a bill expanding paid sick days that Democrats and Republicans ...

Earlier this month, the Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection published the final rules supporting Chicago’s new Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance. Both the ...

Governor Ned Lamont will sign a bill on Tuesday requiring businesses to provide employees with expanded paid sick time.

In 2024, the CT General Assembly expanded the state's sick days law, requiring more employers to offer paid time off. Here's what changed.

Ned Lamont sign House Bill No. 5005. That’s the state law that was approved by both chambers of the state legislature this year that builds off of Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation mandatory paid sick ...

Connecticut first enacted paid sick leave in 2011, but the law only applied to employers with at least 50 workers in specific retail and service occupations. The 2024 law is an expansion of those ...

The Higgs government is being accused of running out the clock on any discussion of adopting paid-sick-leave legislation for New Brunswick workers. With the legislature set to adjourn June 7 for ...

A California judge on Friday rejected a request by the man convicted of killing Polly Klaas to vacate a death sentence imposed on him. Santa Clara County Judge Benjamin Williams declined to ...

Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday led a celebration of a new law that will require even small CT businesses to offer paid days off ...