​Paid Sick Leave

An increasing number of organizations are offering their employees sick leave, whether paid or unpaid. There is currently no federal requirement that employers offer employees paid sick leave if they or family members fall ill and are unable to work. Many states and municipalities now mandate paid sick leave. The International Foundation will keep you up to date on the changing paid sick leave landscape.

Coronavirus

• Colorado’s Public Health Emergency Leave Now Covers COVID-19 and ‘Similar Respiratory Illnesses’ [Faegre Drinker]
  
• States, cities tackle COVID-19 paid leave [Mercer]
  
• California Extends COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Through 2022, Makes Small Amendment and Offers Grants for Smaller Employers [Littler]
  
• COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Laws Could Show Emerging Compliance Trends for Employers [Piliero Mazza]
  
• Philadelphia’s COVID-19 Paid Leave Ordinance for 2022 and 2023 [Littler]
  
• New York City Law Grants Employees Paid COVID-19 Child Vaccination Leave [Ogletree Deakins]
  
• Nevada Enacts Paid Vaccination Leave and “Kin Care” Laws and Amends its Existing Paid Leave Law [Littler]
  

State Action

• Ariz. - Arizona's Paid Sick Day Requirements - Effective July 1, 2017 [Dicksinson Wright]
• Calif. - California Amends Its Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Law [McDermott Will & Emery]
• Colo. - Colorado Employers Face Paid Sick Leave Obligations for 2022 [Fisher Phillips]
• Conn. - Connecticut Employers and the Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Act [Kainen Escalera and McHale]
• D.C. - District of Columbia Greatly Expands Paid Sick Leave Coverage, Enforcement, and Penalties with Amendments to the Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act [Littler]
• Maine - Maine Becomes the First State to Mandate Paid Leave for Any Reason [Ogletree Deakins]
• Md. - Everything Employers Need to Know About Maryland’s New Sick and Safe Leave Law [Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr]
• Mass. - Massachusetts Attorney General Issues Final Earned Sick Leave Regulations With Substantial Revisions [Ogletree Deakins]
• Mich. - Order Issuing Changes to Michigan Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Law Stayed Until February 2023 [Jackson Lewis]
• Nev. - Nevada Mandates Paid Leave for Workers to Use for Any Reason [Epstein Becker Green]
• N.J. - If Pain, Yes Gain—Part 80: Paid Sick Leave Final Rules Blossom out of Garden State After 1+ Years of Silence [Seyfarth]
• N.M. - New Mexico’s Paid Sick Leave Law Becomes Effective on July 1, 2022 [Ogletree Deakins]
• N.Y. - New York Department of Labor Releases Final Regulations for State Sick Leave Law [Littler]
  
• Oreg. - Oregon Amends Sick Leave Law: 5 Key Clarifications [Stoel Rives]
• R.I. - Rhode Island Is the Latest State to Require Paid Sick Leave [Epstein Becker Green]
• Vt. - If Pain, Yes Gain—Part XVIII: Vermont Becomes Fifth State to Enact Paid Sick Leave Law [Seyfarth]
• Wash. - Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Become Available for Employee Use [Seyfarth]

State and Local Mandate Charts 

• Roundup: State accrued paid leave mandates [Mercer]
  
• Paid Sick Leave [National Conference of State Legislatures]
  
• California State and City Paid Sick Leave Laws [Fox Rothschild]
• Paid Sick Days – State and District Statutes [National Partnership for Women & Families]
• Overview of Paid Sick Time Laws in the United States [A Better Balance]