Connecticut’s existing paid sick days law requires employers with more than 50 employees that are mostly in specific retail and service occupations (such as food service workers and health care workers) to provide their employees with up to 40 hours of paid sick leave annually. Starting January 1, 2025, however, significantly more Connecticut employers will have to provide their employees with paid sick leave.
The expanded sick leave law applies to nearly all employees, not only those in retail and service jobs. The only exceptions are for seasonal and temporary workers who work 120 or fewer days per year and certain construction employees who are covered by multiemployer health plans.
Employers will be phased into coverage under the law, starting with those who have 25 or more employees in Connecticut on January 1, 2025. On January 1, 2026, employers with 11 or more employees will be covered. On January 1, 2027, all employees will be covered regardless of size.
Under the state’s current sick leave law, employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Beginning in January, employees will accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Employees can accrue a maximum of 40 hours per year and carryover up to 40 hours of accrued, unused leave.
Alternatively, an employer may frontload 40 hours of leave at the start of each year. If an employer does so, unused leave...
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