Massachusetts has passed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act, offering protections for domestic workers.

A new Massachusetts law gives employees who are victims of domestic violence a right to job-protected leave from work.

In Massachusetts, the law requires employers to adopt a written policy against sexual harassment. The employer's policy must include for example notice to employees that sexual harassment in the workplace is unlawful and that it is unlawful to retaliate against an employee for filing a complaint of sexual harassment. The policy should also assert the employer's commitment to investigate any complaint of sexual harassment.

Massachusetts voters approved a law that will require employers, under certain conditions, to provide sick leave to their employees. Employees may begin accruing sick leave under the law on July 1, 2015.

Massachusetts has updated the Sexual Harassment provisions to allow employers to include the work address and telephone number of the person or persons to whom complaints about sexual harassment should be made.

The minimum wage increased to $9.00 an hour, effective January 1, 2015. The new law also mandates increases in tipped workers’ minimum cash wage to $3.00 an hour on January 1, 2015, and rising to $3.75 an hour on January 1, 2017.

An amendment to the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act (MMLA), effective April 7, 2015, extends leave to males as well as females.

Massachusetts state poster order(s) are now available for ordering due to a recent update that states employers will now be required to make parental leave available to both men and women, if they do not already, and provide job protection to workers during the birth or adoption of a child.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that a safe harbor will be provided for  employers with sufficient existing paid time off policies and gives them an additional six months.