June 20, 2023
Minnesota's governor signed paid family leave into law, and New York is on its way toward requiring nearly $20 per hour in minimum pay for app-based food delivery workers. Here, Law360 explores these and other state wage and hour developments attorneys should know about.
June 05, 2023
Massachusetts cannot impose its sick leave law on airlines after a federal judge determined that the state mandate runs afoul of federal law by contributing to increased employee sick-leave abuse and unexplained absences, which have then disrupted airline schedules and service levels.
November 22, 2022
A federal judge heard dueling narratives Tuesday over how Massachusetts' sick-time law impacts airlines, with an industry group arguing that employee abuse of the law causes cascading travel issues and the state attorney general countering that delays are simply "a fact of life."
October 12, 2022
From pay ranges in job ads to overtime for farmworkers, legal requirements at the state and city level address a variety of wage and hour topics. Here, Law360 looks at employment law developments for attorneys to watch.
September 19, 2022
A federal judge denied Massachusetts' bid to get a midtrial win in a consortium of U.S. airlines' suit claiming the state sick law negatively impacts the industry, saying Monday that the court was "unwilling" to rule against the group.
September 12, 2022
A consortium of U.S. airlines opened a federal bench trial Monday in a case challenging Massachusetts' sick leave law by arguing it would open the floodgates to the type of illegitimate sick days that the carriers struggle to manage on the day after the Super Bowl.
January 20, 2022
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey officially announced her bid to become the state's next governor Thursday morning, citing several of her office's high-profile litigation battles as evidence of the kinds of fights she hopes to bring to the State House.
June 03, 2021
A lobbying organization for some of the country's largest airlines won clearance Thursday to move ahead with its legal challenge to a Massachusetts sick leave law, as a federal judge said lingering questions in the case must be untangled at trial.
February 17, 2021
A lobbying organization for some of the country's biggest airlines and the Massachusetts attorney general on Tuesday filed dueling rejoinders in a case that seeks to exempt airlines from the state's strict mandate for sick time.
April 04, 2018
A lobbying organization for some of the nation's biggest air carriers sued Massachusetts' chief law enforcement officer on Wednesday, claiming flight as well as ground crews should be exempted from the state's strict mandate for earned sick time, which is unconstitutional and allegedly causes flight delays and cancellations.