Maryland
New Paid Family Leave Laws Sprout in Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia Region
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Each Maryland and Virginia have joined the District of Columbia in enacting legal guidelines regarding paid household and medical depart for private-sector employees.
Following within the footsteps of the District of Columbia, the Maryland legislation will create a compulsory statewide profit that can be funded by payroll taxes. In distinction, the Virginia legislation will create a voluntary profit program whereby employers could select to buy insurance coverage to offer paid household and medical depart advantages to workers in the event that they so want.
Employers throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area ought to take inventory of their method to offering household and medical depart. Space employers might have to supply paid household and medical depart advantages to at the least a few of their workforce.
District of Columbia
D.C.’s Common Paid Go away Act gives for paid depart funded by payroll taxes for the next causes:
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Household depart – To take care of a member of the family with a critical well being situation;
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Medical depart – To take care of an worker’s personal critical well being situation (together with, on and after October 1, 2021, the prevalence of a stillbirth and the medical care associated to a miscarriage);
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Parental depart – To bond with the worker’s baby after the kid’s beginning, placement of a kid with an worker for adoption or foster care, or placement of a kid with an worker who will legally assume and discharge parental duty; and
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Pre-natal depart – For lined pre-natal medical care following the analysis of being pregnant by a healthcare supplier and previous to the beginning of the kid.
Till July 1, 2022, the utmost variety of depart weeks are:
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8 workweeks of parental depart;
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6 workweeks of household depart;
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6 workweeks of medical depart; and
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2 workweeks of pre-natal depart.
Beginning on July 1, 2022, these maximums will enhance to:
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12 workweeks of parental depart;
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12 workweeks of household depart;
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12 workweeks of medical depart; and
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2 workweeks of pre-natal depart.
The D.C. Council is contemplating laws to delay the date on which these maximums will enhance to October 1, 2022 (and to make different adjustments to the Common Paid Go away Act). As soon as the brand new maximums take impact, there can be an general cap of 12 weeks of Common Paid Go away Act depart accessible to every eligible D.C. worker per 12 months.
Lined employers are these which can be required to pay unemployment insurance coverage on behalf of workers within the District. Lined workers are those who (1) spend at the least 50 % of the worker’s work time within the District or (2) work for an employer based mostly within the District and commonly spend a considerable quantity of labor time within the District, however not more than 50 % of their work time in one other jurisdiction.
Whereas this legislation doesn’t supply workers job-protected depart, different relevant legislation(s) could apply job protections in the course of the time of depart, such because the federal Household and Medical Go away Act or the District of Columbia Household and Medical Go away Act. Employers are prohibited from taking any motion to intervene with, restrain, or deny the train of worker rights associated to this legislation.
Maryland
The Maryland Basic Meeting handed, over the governor’s veto, the Household and Medical Go away Insurance coverage Program (also referred to as the Time to Care Act of 2022).
The Program can be established on June 1, 2022. Employer and worker profit contributions by way of payroll taxes can be introduced in 2023, and contributions to the fund can be collected starting October 1, 2023.
Staff will have the ability to make the most of the job-protected paid depart starting on January 1, 2025.
The brand new Time to Care Act of 2022 gives advantages to exchange a portion of a lined particular person’s revenue and job-protected depart for the next causes:
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To care for a kid in the course of the first 12 months after the kid’s beginning or after the location of the kid by way of foster care, kinship care, or adoption;
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To take care of a member of the family with a critical well being situation;
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As a result of the lined particular person has a critical well being situation that ends in the lined particular person being unable to carry out the capabilities of the lined particular person’s place;
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To take care of a service member who’s the lined particular person’s subsequent of kin; or
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As a result of the lined particular person has a qualifying exigency arising out of the deployment of a service member who’s a member of the family of the lined particular person.
The utmost quantity of depart a lined particular person could take is 12 weeks per 12 months (the 12 months begins the day the worker recordsdata an utility for advantages). Nevertheless, a lined particular person could obtain an extra 12 weeks of depart for their very own critical well being situation throughout the identical 12 months even when they’ve utilized depart to care for a kid following the kid’s beginning or placement.
Any worker who labored at the least 680 hours within the prior 12 months is eligible to make the most of the advantages and depart supplied by this new legislation. Lined employers that should present depart are those who make use of one worker within the state, though solely employers with at the least 15 workers, with restricted exception, should contribute to the Program.
Staff who take depart are entitled to continued worker well being advantages throughout depart and to reinstatement to an equal place, until terminated for trigger or reinstatement would trigger substantial and grievous financial harm to the employer’s operations and sure advance discover is supplied. A lot of the legislation appears to be impressed by the federal Household and Medical Go away Act, together with required superior discover for foreseeable depart and allowable intermittent depart. Employers should present discover to workers of entitlements underneath this legislation starting in 2023.
Implementing laws from the Maryland Division of Labor are anticipated. They could give readability to the brand new legislation’s necessities that workers use all employer-provided depart that isn’t required by legislation earlier than receiving advantages underneath the legislation.
Virginia
Virginia’s Non-public Household Go away Insurance coverage Act permits employers, on a voluntary foundation, to buy insurance coverage insurance policies that present advantages to exchange a share or portion of a qualifying worker’s revenue loss on account of:
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The beginning of a kid or adoption of a kid by the worker;
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The position of a kid with the worker for foster care;
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The care of a member of the family of the worker who has a critical well being situation; or
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Circumstances arising out of the truth that the worker’s member of the family who’s a service member is on energetic responsibility or has been notified of an impending name or order to energetic responsibility.
The insurance policies might be written as an modification or rider to a gaggle incapacity revenue coverage, included in a gaggle incapacity revenue coverage, or written as a separate group insurance coverage coverage bought by an employer.
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General, paid household and medical depart advantages will have an effect on practically each employer within the Washington Metropolitan Area. Employers nonetheless have time to contemplate the implications and actions required to adjust to the brand new legal guidelines in Maryland and Virginia.
Jackson Lewis P.C. © 2022Nationwide Legislation Assessment, Quantity XII, Quantity 113
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Maryland
Maryland Weather: Severe Storms Moving in From West
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BALTIMORE – Severe storms have been plaguing western Maryland this afternoon. They are on the move east and will push into Carroll County near the 6pm hour. These storms have a history of producing winds capable of downing trees. We are also seeing heavy rain and lightning.
Most of the activity will push north and south of the forecast area surrounding Baltimore with the marine layer or stable air mass keeping the severe weather west of the mountain regions.
The warm front associated with the severe weather is bring warm, humid air in overnight. Expect overnight lows in the low 70s with scattered showers and isolated severe storms.
A secondary cold front will bring another chance for an isolated strong storms on Sunday. The day won’t be a washout, there is the possibility of active weather in the afternoon and evening.
The front will bring bright sunny skies for Monday with low humidity. Perfect weather for the afternoon barbecue or last summer activity. Kids getting back to school this week should expect refreshing temperatures… possibly even a little chilly with overnight lows in the 50s.
High pressure will control our weather for the middle of the week. Expect sunny skies and low humidity through Friday. Overnight lows Tuesday and Wednesday will be in the mid 50s, with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. The chance of showers returns late Friday.
Maryland
How to watch Maryland football vs. UConn
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Maryland football is back and kicks off its season at home against UConn on Saturday.
The Terps will take on the Huskies for first time since 2013, when Maryland won, 32-21. The Terps are coming off an 8-5 season, in which they won their third straight bowl game, while UConn is coming off a disappointing 3-9 season and looking to play spoiler on the road.
With a victory, Maryland will move its week one winning streak to five games.
The numbers
Maryland: 0-0
UConn: 0-0
All-time series: Maryland leads, 2-1
DraftKings Sportsbook line: Maryland -19.5, O/U 44.5
How to watch and listen
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 12 p.m. ET
Where: SECU Stadium, College Park, Maryland
TV: Fox Sports 1 — Connor Onion (play-by-play), Mark Helfrich (analyst)
Radio: 105.7 FM (Balt) / 980 AM (DC) – Johnny Holliday (play-by-play), Steve Suter (analyst), LaMont Jordan (sideline)
Streaming: Fox Sports
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Maryland
Maryland Supreme Court reinstates Adnan Syed murder conviction, orders new hearing
BALTIMORE— Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court’s decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured on the first season of the “Serial” podcast.
The ruling says the case should be sent back to a lower court for a new hearing on whether it should be thrown out entirely. The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling that had cleared Syed’s name two years ago.
Syed had served more than 20 years for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.
He was freed from prison in September 2022 after Baltimore prosecutors found flaws in the evidence presented at trial and a judge agreed to vacate his conviction.
However, Lee’s relatives appealed the decision, contending they didn’t receive sufficient notice to attend the hearing that set Syed free. In March 2023, the Maryland Appellate Court agreed and reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the hearing.
Syed appealed that ruling, bringing the matter to the Maryland Supreme Court. Friday’s ruling comes 11 months after arguments were made.
Justices found the circuit court violated the rights of Young Lee, Hae Min Lee’s brother.
“In an effort to remedy what they perceived to be an injustice to Mr. Syed, the prosecutor and the Circuit Court worked an injustice against Mr. Lee,” the court said.
Syed will remain free until the next hearing which has not been scheduled. The Supreme Court ordered the Lee family must have sufficient notice of the new hearing and a new judge must preside.
“If there’s actually evidence presented that shows that Adnan Syed should not have been convicted, we would be the first ones to congratulate Adnan Syed and argue he should be a free man,” said David Sanford, the attorney for the Lee family. “That hasn’t happened yet.”
In their dissenting opinions, several justices wrote when the case was vacated, any appeal by Young Lee should’ve been rendered moot. Those justices also argued there aren’t any specific victims’ rights that would require Young Lee be allowed to be present at that 2022 hearing.
Syed’s lawyer Erica Suter said that while they disagree with the ruling, the Lee family’s pain in this isn’t lost on them.
“Wrongful convictions devastate the wrongly accused, their family and the family of the victim,” Suter said. “Reinstating Adnan’s wrongful conviction does not provide justice or closure.”
Rabia Chaudry, Syed’s friend and advocate, went on Instagram Live to affirm that she will do what she can to keep Syed a free man.
“I will never not fight for his freedom and I know there are others, also, in his life who will never not fight for his freedom,” Chaudry said.
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