Keeping up with changing employment laws in your state is an almost-impossible task. So let someone else do it for you.
Site name: Jackson Lewis
URL: www.jacksonlewis.com
Who runs it: The national law firm of Jackson Lewis
What it provides: A lot of stuff, but the real gold of the site comes in its information on updates to state laws.
Before you can use the site, you’ll have to complete the registration – e-mail address, password verification and the usual demographic info. After that, you’re free to kick around the site and brush up on a bunch of legal information, much of which is a pitch to call the firm’s lawyers for help (and generation of billable hours).
Our advice: Skip most of it, and click on Legal Updates on the top toolbar. You’ll get a drop-down box. The two links you’re interested in are “By Location” and “Newsletters.”
By Location hooks you up to employment-law updates for 20 states and the District of Columbia. Newsletters offers you a PDF download of various publications covering employment law by state and region.
Need to know New Jersey’s latest state law covering employee e-mail use? It’s in there. Or how about Florida’s rules on how employers must deal with domestic violence? Covered. Or Massachusetts’ regulations on protecting your employees from ID theft? Read all about it.
The catch here is that the site omits a bunch of states – probably the ones that don’t have Jackson Lewis offices in them. To save you some time, here’s a list of the states covered as of this writing:
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, HA, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, ND, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX.
During your free trial, you can cancel at any time with a single click on your “Account” page. It’s that easy.
