Article: BILL WOULD ALIGN WISCONSIN, U.S. CODES State, federal leave laws conflict, cause confusion Separate requirements don't even agree on the definition of work hours

Article: ATTORNEY GENERAL COOPER ISSUES OPINION REGARDING WHETHER STATE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 07-005 Whether State Sick Leave Bank Constitutes a ... Benefit Program" Under Federal Law. QUESTION Whether the State Employees' Sick Leave Bank, created pursuant ... The State Employees' Sick Leave Banks are authorized ...

Article: PUBLIC WEIGH IN ON SICK LEAVE SOME THINK CITY ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  August 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... interests to get paid sick leave for all employees in ... employers to provide paid sick leave. "The goal is to hear ... begin around a proposed federal law that would require seven paid days of sick leave each year for all businesses ...

Article: Study Points To Sick-Leave Shortfalls.
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT);  June 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... companies have no paid sick leave, a report released Tuesday ... for sick days. "Paid sick leave is the next frontier ... least 15 employees. Federal law guarantees many workers the right to take unpaid sick leave but it does not require ...

Article: COALITION PROPOSES PAID SICK LEAVE LAW THE CITY LAW ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  August 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... an effort to get paid sick leave for all employees in ... employers to provide paid sick leave because employees in ... begin around a proposed federal law that would require a minimum seven days of paid sick leave annually, Selkowe said ...

Article: COURT CLOSES LOOPHOLE ON ACCRUED SICK LEAVE ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... t have to pay the accrued sick leave because it set up its sick leave plan as an employee welfare ... The company claimed the federal law pre-empted the state law ... Kristine Meyers for her accrued sick leave when she stayed home with ...

Article: Sick-leave lives despite Milwaukee ruling
Daily Reporter (Milwaukee);  June 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that have a paid sick-leave policy, No. 1 ... passes." The federal law, sponsored by ... federal mandated paid sick leave may be on the horizon ... Finerty said. The federal law would require fewer ... one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours ...

Article: Union Pushes to Mandate Paid Sick Leave
The State Journal;  December 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... are entitled to paid sick leave as part of the agreements ... workers not receiving paid sick leave are in the service industry ... There currently is no federal law that requires that workers ... workers receive paid sick leave, as do most state and ...