As 2025 continues, the state sick leave law landscape continues to change, posing ongoing challenges for multistate employers. On July 10, 2025, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed legislation...

As 2025 continues, the state sick leave law landscape continues to change, posing ongoing challenges for multistate employers. On July 10, 2025, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed legislation repealing the state's sick leave law, which was passed by Missouri voters in November 2024. This was just the latest in a series of legal developments with respect to state sick leave.

With several new sick leave laws becoming effective in 2025, and with last minute changes passed by state legislatures, multistate employers must remain vigilant regarding compliance with sick leave requirements.

Below is a summary of some 2025 state law sick leave-related developments.

As January 1, 2025, New York implemented paid prenatal leave. The statute makes it clear that the prenatal leave requirement is in addition to and independent from any other paid leave. As a result, unlike many sick leave requirements, paid prenatal leave in New York cannot be rolled into an existing PTO or sick leave policy, and employers cannot require employees to exhaust other leave prior to using the new paid prenatal leave. The law is the first of its kind in the nation providing leave specifically related to prenatal issues, and may be a bellwether for new laws to come.

Three states that previously had no sick leave...

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