Mass. Attorney General Prepares To Enforce Sick-Leave Law

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published May 29, 2015 at 12:37 PM EDT

A new law goes into effect on July 1^st in Massachusetts that entitles most employees to earn and use sick time. The Massachusetts Attorney General’s office is holding more than a dozen listening sessions and formal public hearings across the state on the new law. A public hearing took place Friday t in Springfield. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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