Business Law Question

Choose one of the topics mentioned in the article that would most likely apply to your career (or expected career).Paid Family Leave

California, New Jersey and Rhode Island currently offer paid family leave, and New York will join the list in 2018. Washington state and Washington, D.C., have also passed such laws, but they won’t take effect until later.

Paid family leave in New York will be a big change for employers, said Lauren Leyden, an attorney with Akin Gump in New York City, noting that the program will be phased in over the next few years. Employers need to understand the calculations and other mechanisms of the law and how new requirements compare to current employer offerings, she added.

Although only a handful of states offer paid family leave, others are expected to follow.

Source:

Piazza, L. & Smith, A. (2018).  8 Workplace Legal Trends for 2018. Society for Human Resource Management. Retrieved from

https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/Pages/8-Workplace-Legal-Trends-for-2018.aspx

on 10/20/2018.

Assume you are the HR Director of a medium to large corporation or the owner of a small business. Draft a memo informing your employees on the topic you chose. The purpose of this memo is to keep them up to date on an issue that might affect them or the company. At a minimum, your memo should include:

A description of the legal issue in a way that your audience could understand it (in other words, read, analyze, then draft your explanation in language that your employees would understand).

Include an explanation of the current state of that issue/law (this is to help them understand a comparison to what the future might hold).

A discussion on how your company will address that issue when/if the time comes.