Recent Updates

New York, NY – Safe and Sick Leave (October 2020)

• This notice covers part- and full-time workers employed by non-profit and for-profit businesses of any size, as well as domestic workers working in NYC households.
• Each calendar year, all employers must provide 40 hours of safe and sick leave.
• Effective 1/1/2020, employers with more than 100 employees must provide up to 56 hours of leave.
• Safe and Sick leave is accrued at a rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
• Unused safe or sick leave can be carried over to the next year.
• You have a right to paid leave if
  • Your employer has five or more employees OR fewer than five employees but a net income of $1 million or greater or
  • You work in someone’s home as a domestic worker.
• You have a right to unpaid sick leave if
  • Your employer has fewer than five employees and a net income of less than $1 million.
• Sick and safe leave can be used
  • To get medical care for yourself
  • To care for a family member who is sick
  • When your job or your child’s school closes due to a public health emergency
  • For your safety or a family member’s safety due to domestic violence, sexual harassment, stalking, or human trafficking.
• Employers can require advanced notice of planned safe and sick leave, but employees are not required to provide advanced notice in emergency situations.
• Employees are NOT required to give details regarding their use of safe and sick leave
• Employees who use more than three days of safe and sick leave in a row can be required to provide documentation to their employer. Employees must be reimbursed for any associated costs.
• Employers must
  • Give employees a written safe and sick leave policy which explains employee benefits
  • Inform employees of how much safe and sick leave they have used and how much they have remaining.
• Employers cannot retaliate against employees who request, use, or report policy violations of safe and sick time.

Other changes:

Temporary Changes to Work Schedule – Aug 2018

Stop Sexual Harassment Act – Aug 2018

Pregnancy Accommodations at Work – Dec 2017