Many jobs include a certain amount of paid sick, vacation, or personal leave for workers. A worker who becomes ill, needs to care for a sick family member, or wants to take a day off can use this leave without any interruption in pay. But many workers don’t have any paid leave—so if they take leave, they lose income.
In Illinois, about 1.5 million workers lack paid leave. But the Illinois Paid Leave for All Workers Act, signed into law on March 13, mandates paid time off that workers can use for any reason, not just for sickness. Under the law, workers accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours of leave during a 12-month period.
The Paid Leave for All Workers Act extends paid leave to many workers who have lacked it, including domestic workers. It also applies to non-unionized, low-wage workers such as temp workers and warehouse workers, said Wendy Pollack, founder and director of the Women’s Law and Policy Initiative at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, which advocated for the Illinois law. When tipped workers take leave, they will be paid at least their respective locale’s full minimum wage rather than the tipped minimum wage.
The Illinois law leaves out certain workers, though. It doesn’t apply to independent contractors, who generally get paid only for the work that they do. Nor does it apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement in the construction industry or parcel, documents, or freight delivery industries.
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