On July 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced it would once again oversee the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program, allowing employers ...

When California became the first state in the country to create a paid family leave program in 2004, it was groundbreaking, but it offered somewhat bare-bones benefits. Get stories like this delivered ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Labor has officially revived its Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. Designed to help employers proactively resolve FLSA issues—and now, ...

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A DOD program connecting military spouses to paid fellowships is expanding, as one of the efforts to increase opportunities for spouse employment. Shown here in 2023, military spouses meet employers ...

As paid family leave (PFL) expands to three new states in 2026—Delaware and Minnesota in January and Maine in May—the expansion of state benefit programs is not all sunshine and rainbows. In reality, ...

More than 25,000 workers have already applied for Minnesota’s new paid leave program, sending businesses scrambling to cover their work and creating an unexpected windfall for temp agencies. True ...

Washington’s innovative paid family and medical leave program could be hundreds of millions of dollars in the red within a few years, unless the Legislature acts. This could mean reduced benefits or ...