Roughly 20 states and 30 local jurisdictions have implemented paid sick leave laws. Several of these states and jurisdictions amended their paid sick leave policies in 2023, with the amendments taking effect Jan. 1, 2024. Additionally, Minnesota has enacted its first statewide paid sick and safe time law, which also takes effect Monday. Below is a summary of these new or updated laws.
California
California’s paid sick leave law applies to any employer that employs at least one employee in California for at least 30 days within one year. The amendments to the law will increase the minimum amount of paid sick leave an employer must provide to its employees, as well as annual sick leave accrual and usage caps.
Beginning Jan. 1, employers have three options to comply with the amended law:
1) provide employees with a front-loaded annual grant of 40 hours or 5 days of sick leave
2) allow employees to accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked
3) provide sick leave that accrues on a regular basis other than one hour of leave for every 30 hours worked, so that employees have no less than 24 hours of accrued leave by either the 120th calendar day of employment or in each 12-month period and no less than 40 hours of accrued leave by the 200th calendar day of employment or in each 12-month period.
Additionally, the California amendments raise the paid sick leave accrual cap from 48 hours to 80 hours and increase the paid sick leave usage cap from 24 hours or three...
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