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HB 7 Sick leave; certain private employers to provide employees with paid benefits.

Introduced by: Marcus B. Simon | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Paid sick leave. Requires private employers with 25 or more full-time employee equivalents to provide those employees working at least 18 hours per week with paid sick leave benefits. A covered employee would earn one hour of paid sick leave benefit for every 50 hours he works for an employer during 2017 or the first year of the employer's businesses operations if employment commences after January 1, 2018. Thereafter, such employees would accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours of work. An employer could offer an employee seeking to take paid sick leave the opportunity to work additional hours or to switch shifts with another employee as an alternative to using accrued paid sick leave. An employee may not unreasonably refuse the offer of additional hours in lieu of taking the paid sick leave. An employer may elect to provide benefits more generous than those required by this measure. An employer that knowingly fails to provide such paid sick leave to its employees is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 per violation. The Commissioner of Labor and Industry may institute proceedings on behalf of an employee to enforce compliance with this measure and to collect the value of any paid sick leave unlawfully withheld from such employee, which shall be awarded to the employee.


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