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Your Employer Has Certain Responsibilities Usually, if an employee has been the target of sexual harassment, the first step in dealing with it is to file an internal report with their employer. The employer has certain responsibilities once this happens, and if they fail to meet those responsibilities, it may […]

Adoptive Parents Need Time Off, Too The Family and Medical Leave Act offers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for various medical and caregiving reasons. One of the qualifying reasons for taking FMLA leave is the birth of a child. But what if you’re adopting a child […]

One of the Country’s Strongest Minimum Wage Laws The New Jersey Minimum Wage Act is one of several laws and statutes aimed at ensuring that employees in New Jersey are paid an adequate living wage. New Jersey is one of the most progressive states in the country when it comes […]

The Law That Protects Equal Wages for Women The Equal Pay Act (EPA) requires employers to pay male and female employees equally for the same work. Technically it promotes pay equity for men as well as women, but it was crafted to remedy the strongly entrenched pay disparities faced by […]

The Statute That Sets the Standards for Wage Payment in Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act is the statute that sets the minimum wage and overtime pay rules in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Recently the federal minimum wage has been in the news, as lawmakers have attempted to raise it […]