If the bill is ultimately signed by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, as expected, Connecticut will join Washington, D.C., Arizona, ...

State lawmakers debate expanding paid sick leave Republicans put forth their budget adjustments. Will Democrats listen? What ...

Thirteen years after Connecticut required a narrow slice of private-sector employers to offer five paid sick days annually, ...

Charities and unions call on Conor Murphy to include paid carer’s leave in the new employment rights legislation ...

Seventeen other states have adopted similar rules. Candelora said that more-acceptable legislation should have used some of ...

"The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs," state Rep. Lisa Subeck, D-Madison, said ...

The state’s new policy will require that employers offer an extra 20 hours of paid sick leave to pregnant employees on top of ...

SUNY Potsdam professor Lauren Diamond-Brown says the 20 hours off during pregnancy will help people access prenatal ...

Depleting sick days, paying for their own subs, returning to work weeks after giving birth, teachers — and their babies — ...

Paid prenatal personal leave is in addition to paid sick and safe leave (40 or 56 hours, depending on the size of the employer) and paid family leave 1 employees in New York are currently entitled to, ...

House Democrats pushed through an expansion of the state's Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Wednesday that ...

NEW YORK -- Gov. Kathy Hochul signed new legislation as part if the fiscal year 2025 budget to give pregnant women an ...