Updates: Massachusetts PFML Highlights Compliance Challenges

State-mandated benefit programs, including Paid Family and Medical Leave [PFML], place a growing compliance burden on employers and their HCM systems — from tracking eligibility and monitoring protected leave status to avoiding assumed retaliation for employee terminations.

Two recent Massachusetts PFML updates — a new private plan exemption procedure and a significant jury verdict in a PFML retaliation case — underscore that PFML compliance extends well beyond the narrow administering of employee leave.

You can read more about these two updates here: Massachusetts PFML Updates.pdf.

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