Do you work in a state where employers must pay you to take time to vote? Read on.
Voters have heard the midterm election TV commercials and radio spots for months.
Now it's time for people to have their say on Election Day, and the majority of states have work-leave laws that require employers to give their staff time to cast their vote.
There are roughly 30 states with vote-related leave laws and more than 20 of those states require paid leave, employment law experts note.
A pending federal bill, the Time Off to Vote Act, would mandate employers give their workers at least two hours of paid leave to vote in a federal election. Federal workers get up to four hours of administrative leave to vote
For non-federal employees, there isn't one rule for who's covered, the amount of time off and when paid leave requirements kick in, according to a state-by-state rundown from lawyers at Ogletree Deakins
But the general idea is the job can wait a little bit, so get out and vote.
Within a non-partisan coalition of more than 2,000 businesses called Time to Vote, members are taking a variety of steps. They include access to information about early voting and Election Day, potentially paid time off or even a day free of meetings.
Before election day, more than 45 million Americans already cast their vote in person or by mail-in ballot, according to the U.S. Elections Project data. That's exceeding the 39.1 million early voting ballots cast in 2018, but below the 101...
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