June 2025: Detailed Look at State and Local Updates
Timely, topical insights on a variety of payroll and reporting issues.
Check out our monthly series that focuses on timely, topical insights on various payroll and reporting issues at the state, local, and federal levels. This edition covers regulatory and legislative updates in benefits, leave, payroll, and time and labor.
The highlighted states include Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.
It also provides a list of minimum wage announcements.
The topics covered in this issue are:
State/Territory/District
- Colorado Amends Rules on Deductions, Broadens Retaliation Protections
- Colorado Amends Paid Family Leave Program
- Indiana Protects Employees Who Attend Certain School Meetings
- Maryland Delays Paid Family Leave Program Again
- Montana Adds Protections for Volunteer Emergency Service Providers
- New York State Expands Child Labor Protections
- New York State Releases Guidance for Retail Workplace Safety and Violence Prevention
- Oregon Enacts New Hire Notice Requirements
- Washington State Amends Pay Transparency Law
- Washington State Clarifies Employee Access to Personnel Records and Termination Information
- Washington State Modifies Hospital Workers Meal and Rest Break Requirements
- Washington State Requires Notice Before Certain Layoffs
Local
- Cleveland, Ohio Enacts Pay Transparency Law
- New York City Expands Employee Earned Safe and Sick Time Protections
- Philadelphia Clarifies Paid Sick Leave Rate of Pay for Tipped Employees
Minimum Wage
- Minimum Wage Announcements 5/21/25 – 6/20/25
