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Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act: What Municipalities Need to Know

Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act: What Municipalities Need to Know

This webinar reviews the key provisions of the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act, including pay disclosure requirements and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data reporting. Recommended audience: Human Resource professionals
Employment LawsWebinarfreePublication Date: Sep 10, 2025
Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

Municipal Legal Updates: Summer 2025

This webinar features a panel of attorneys with the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association addressing current issues. Topics include cannabis law and policy, tax title takings, recent accessory dwelling unit (ADU) bylaw decisions, and policies related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities. Recommended audience: chief municipal officials, all members
Employment LawsWebinarfreePublication Date: Aug 06, 2025
Navigating Immigration and Employment Law: Best Practices for Municipal HR

Navigating Immigration and Employment Law: Best Practices for Municipal HR

This webinar provides updates on immigration and employment law for municipal HR professionals, covering employment eligibility requirements, I-9 audits, an overview of visa types and timelines, and updates from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Recommended audience: Human resource professionals
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Mar 13, 2025
Labor Law Update: New Laws, Recent Cases and Agency Decisions

Labor Law Update: New Laws, Recent Cases and Agency Decisions

2022 MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show webinar: Two employment and labor law attorneys with decades of experience in the public sector discussed developments in 2021.
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Feb 09, 2022
Costing Out Contracts

Costing Out Contracts

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Collective Bargaining AgreementsWebinarPublication Date: Jun 17, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine and Labor Law Update

COVID-19 Vaccine and Labor Law Update

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources association
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: Mar 04, 2021
COVID-19: Layoffs, Furloughs and Unemployment

COVID-19: Layoffs, Furloughs and Unemployment

Presented by the Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources
Employment LawsWebinarPublication Date: May 14, 2020
Annual Labor Law Update: Selected Mass. Agency Decisions in 2019

Annual Labor Law Update: Selected Mass. Agency Decisions in 2019

Presentation by Katherine Hesse, a founding partner at the law firm Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP and D.M. Moschos, of counsel at the law firm Mirick O’Connell Attorneys at Law, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2020
Employment LawsPresentationpdf - 2 MB
Mass. Human Resources Division, Civil Service Unit

Mass. Human Resources Division, Civil Service Unit

Presentation by the Civil Service Unit, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 25, 2020
Employment LawsPresentationpdf - 6 MB
Massachusetts Dept. of Labor Relations Annual Report FY2019

Massachusetts Dept. of Labor Relations Annual Report FY2019

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Lowlights and Highlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2018

Lowlights and Highlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2018

Presented by the law firm Norris, Murray & Peloquin, at MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show, Jan. 18, 2019
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Hot Topics in Municipal Law: Selected Statutes and Cases for 2018

Hot Topics in Municipal Law: Selected Statutes and Cases for 2018

Presented by Donna M. Brewer, lead town counsel and heads the litigation and employment practice groups at the law firm Miyares and Harrington, Ellen Callahan Doucette, city solicitor in Woburn and Kathleen Colleary, former chief of the Municipal Finance Law Bureau at the Division of Local Services and president of the Massachusetts Municipal Lawyers Association, at MMA Annual…
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Law: A Massachusetts Employer's Guide to Sexual Harassment Allegations in the Wake of #MeToo

Law: A Massachusetts Employer's Guide to Sexual Harassment Allegations in the Wake of #MeToo

By Attorney Regina Ryan, principal with Louison, Costello, Condon & Pfaff, LLP, and founder and owner of Discrimination and Harassment Solutions, LLC, published in the MMA’s Municipal Advocate magazine, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2018
Employment LawsArticlepdf - 473 KB
Attorney General Advisory: Affirming Labor Rights and Obligations in Public Workplaces

Attorney General Advisory: Affirming Labor Rights and Obligations in Public Workplaces

Issued by Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in response to Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, June 2018
Employment LawsGuidancepdf - 287 KB
MCAD Q&A - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

MCAD Q&A - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Issued by the Massachusetts Commission Against DIscrimination, February 27, 2018
Employment LawsGuidancepdf - 72 KB
An Act to Establish Pay Equity: Overview and Frequently Asked Questions

An Act to Establish Pay Equity: Overview and Frequently Asked Questions

Guidance issued by the Attorney General’s Office for employers on changes to the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act (Ch. 149, Sect. 105A), March 1, 2018
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MCAD Guidance - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

MCAD Guidance - Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Issued by the Massachusetts Commission Against DIscrimination, January 23, 2018
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Annual Labor Law Update - Mirick O’Connell (2018)

Annual Labor Law Update - Mirick O’Connell (2018)

Presentation by D.M. Moschos, senior partner at the law firm Mirick O’Connell, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 19, 2018
Employment LawsPresentationpdf - 616 KB
Annual Labor Law Update - Collins, Loughran, & Peloquin (2018)

Annual Labor Law Update - Collins, Loughran, & Peloquin (2018)

Presentation by Philip Collins, founding partner at the law firm Collins, Loughran, & Peloquin, at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 19, 2018
Employment LawsPresentationpdf - 2 MB
Employment Liability Best Practices: How Things Go Wrong, How to Make Things Go Right

Employment Liability Best Practices: How Things Go Wrong, How to Make Things Go Right

Presentation by Regina Ryan at MMA Annual Meeting, January 20, 2018
Employment LawsPresentationpdf - 397 KB
Law: Filling Vacancies Requires Attention to Public Governance Statutes

Law: Filling Vacancies Requires Attention to Public Governance Statutes

By Brandon H. Moss, article for Municipal Advocate magazine, May 2017
Employment LawsArticlepdf - 1 MB
Lowlights and Highlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2016

Lowlights and Highlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2016

Presentation at 2017 MMA Annual Meeting by attorney Phil Collins of Collins, Loughran & Peloquin, P.C., January 20, 2017
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Labor Law Update 2017

Labor Law Update 2017

Presentation at 2017 MMA Annual Meeting by attorneys D.M. Moschos and Nicholas Anastasopoulos of Mirick O’Connell, January 20, 2017
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Labor Law Update 2016

Labor Law Update 2016

Presentation at 2016 MMA Annual Meeting by attorneys D. M. Moschos and Nicholas Anastasopoulos of Mirick O’Connell, January 22, 2016
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Lowlights and Highlights of 2014 Agency Employment Decisions

Lowlights and Highlights of 2014 Agency Employment Decisions

Presentation at 2015 MMA Annual Meeting by Phil Collins of the law firm Collins, Loughran and Peloquin, January 23, 2015
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Labor Law Update 2015

Labor Law Update 2015

Presentation at 2015 MMA Annual Meeting by attorneys D. M. Moschos and Nicholas Anastasopoulos of Mirick O’Connell, January 23, 2015
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Highlights and Lowlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2013

Highlights and Lowlights of Agency Employment Decisions Reported in 2013

Presentation by attorneys Philip Collins, Melissa Murray and Stephanie Merabet at MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2014
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Labor Law Update 2014

Labor Law Update 2014

Presentation by attorneys D.M. Moschos and Nicholas Anastasopoulos of Mirick O’Connell at the MMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 24, 2014
Employment Lawspdf - 318 KB
The Fair Labor Standards Act and Public Sector Employers

The Fair Labor Standards Act and Public Sector Employers

Presentation by Kathryn M. Murphy, Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, March 2011
Employment Lawspdf - 506 KB
Amendments to CORI and Personnel Records Statutes

Amendments to CORI and Personnel Records Statutes

Presentation by attorney Kimberly Rozak of Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, October 2010
Employment Lawspdf - 517 KB
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