City- and State- Mandated Employee Benefits
Inside Counsel
April 23, 2012, Wendy K. Voss and Lindsay O. Clizbe
In recent years, states and cities have enacted various laws requiring private employers to provide certain benefits to their employees beyond those benefits mandated by federal law or traditionally mandated under state law, such as workers’ or unemployment compensation. Many states have enacted family and medical leave laws modeled loosely on the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).