Nearly two-and-a-half years after it was originally proposed, the Allegheny County Council passed a Paid Sick Leave law (the "Act") in September 2021 to require employers to provide certain employees in Allegheny County with up to 40 hours of paid sick time per year. With the adoption of this law, Allegheny County joins over 25 other states and localities—including Pittsburgh and Philadelphia—that have enacted generally applicable paid sick and safe time laws. In most respects, the Act tracks the Pittsburgh Paid Sick Days Act, which will make compliance easier since Pittsburgh sits within Allegheny County.
The Act states that its notice provisions became effective upon final approval, but all provisions were to take effect 90 days after designation of an enforcement agency and that agency's posting of notice information for employers online. The county designated the Allegheny County Department of Administrative Services (Department) as the agency responsible for enforcing the Act. On December 10, 2021, the Department posted a sample Notice for employers on the county's website, making the effective date for compliance March 10, 2022, per the Act's text.1
Nonetheless, the Department also posted Guidance and FAQs on December 10, 2021, stating that the Act took effect on December 15, 2021, just five days after the Department posted the sample notice for employers. Despite the tension between the Department's actions and the express language of the Act, covered employers...
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