On September 25, 2025, the New York City Council sent to the mayor a bill (Int. No. 0780-2024) that would amend the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) to incorporate the requirements under the New York City Temporary Schedule Change Law. The bill provides additional covered reasons to take ESSTA and would add a bucket of thirty-two hours of unpaid leave in addition to the leave already provided by the ESSTA. If signed, the bill will take effect 120 days later.

• On September 25, 2025, the New York City Council passed a bill that would amend the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) to incorporate the requirements under New York City’s Temporary Schedule Change Law.
• The amendments would expand covered reasons to take ESSTA.
• The amendments would add a separate bank of thirty-two hours of unpaid ESSTA in addition to the forty or fifty-six hours already provided under the ESSTA.

Overview of the ESSTA

The ESSTA requires employers to provide safe and sick leave to employees working in New York City for the care and treatment of themselves or a family member; to seek legal and social services assistance or take other safety measures if the employee or a family member may be the victim of any act or threat of domestic violence or unwanted sexual contact, stalking, or human trafficking; or due to closure of employees’ place of business or employees’ need to care for a child whose school or childcare provider has been closed by order of a public official due to a public health...

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