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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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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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