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Note that states may include provisions allowing employers to front-load paid sick time, thereby allowing them to disregard certain accrual and carryover limits.
State comparison
State
State law in addition to federal regulations (effective date)
Who must comply
Leave: hours earned ratio
Cap on accrual (and use, where applicable)
Carryover
Yes - (7/1/17) Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act
All employers
30:1 Frontloading allowed
Employers with fewer than 15 employees: 24 hours Employers with 15 or more employees: 40 hours
24 hours for small employers, 40 hours for larger employers
Yes - (7/1/15) Healthy Workplace, Healthy Families Act
Employers with employees who work 30 or more days in California per year
30:1 Frontloading allowed
48 hours*
*While employers must allow employees to accrue up to 48 hours of sick time, they may
Up to 48 hours
Yes - CA organ or bone marrow donation (1/1/11)
Employers with 15 or more employees
30 days paid leave in a one-year period (and an additional 30 days unpaid leave in a one-year period) for organ donation; five days paid leave in a one-year period for bone marrow donation
N/A the leave does not accrue
N/A
Yes - (1/1/21) Healthy Families and Workplaces
As of 1/1/21, employers with 16 or more employees; as of 1/1/22, all employers
30:1 Frontloading allowed
48 hours
Up to 48 hours
Yes - paid family and medical leave - Prop 118 (premiums collected 2023 leave begins 2024)
Employers with one or more employees.
The leave is not accrued.
Up to 12 weeks for qualifying reasons, four additional weeks for pregnancy/childbirth disability
Not applicable, the leave does not carry over.
Yes - paid sick leave (1/1/12)
Employers with 50 or more employees that employ “service workers” as defined by state law
40:1 Frontloading not specifically addressed, but employers may offer paid time off that meets or exceeds the PSL requirements
40 hours
Up to 40 hours
Yes - paid family and medical leave (1/1/22)
All private employers with one or more employees
This leave is not accrued.
Employees may take up to 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period for qualifying reasons; 2 additional weeks for pregnancy disability
Not applicable. The leave not used does not carry over.
Yes - (1/1/21) Earned paid leave
Employers with 10 or more employees for more than 120 days in any calendar year
40:1 Employers may have a 120-day waiting period
40 hours
No cap or carryover indicated
Yes - (2/11/18) Healthy Working Families Act
Employers with 15 or more employees. Those with fewer than 15 must offer unpaid leave
30:1 Frontloading allowed
40 hours
Leave may be capped at 64 hours per year
Up to 40 hours
Yes - (7/1/15) Earned sick leave
All employers must provide for leave; those with 11 or more employees must provide paid leave.
30:1 Frontloading allowed
40 hours
Up to 40 hours
Yes - temporary emergency paid sick leave (6/7/21 to 4/1/22)
All employers
The leave is not accrued.
40 hours for full-time employees, otherwise average hours per week
No carryover
Yes - (12/4/18) Paid Medical Leave Act.
Employers with 50 or more employees Nonexempt employees for whom the employer withholds federal income taxes are eligible. A number of other exemptions exist.
35:1 Frontloading allowed
Up to 40 hours per year
Up to 40 hours
Yes - paid donation leave
Employers with 20 or more employees for bone/organ; all state employees for blood. Organ donation applies to public employers.
Leave does not accrue. Employees get 40 hours to donate bone marrow or an organ.
State employees get three hours to donate blood.
40 hours for bone marrow or organ, three hours for blood.
No carryover provisions
Yes - (1/1/20), Paid leave
All private employers with 50 or more employees
0.01923 hours of paid leave for every hour worked; Frontloading allowed
40 hours per benefit year
Up to 40 hours
Yes - paid leave for COVID vaccine (until 12/31/23)
Private employers with 50 or more employees in NV.
Two hours for a single dose or four hours for two doses (two hours each dose)
Four hours
No carryover provisions
Yes - (10/29/18)
Private employers with employees working in the state
30:1 Frontloading allowed
Accrue and use up to 40 hours of leave in a period of 12 consecutive months
Employers may limit accrual and carry over to 40 hours of PSL
Yes - New Mexico Healthy Workplaces Act (paid sick leave) (7/1/22)
All private employers
30:1 Frontloading allowed
64 hours per year
Yes, but employers may limit use of leave to 64 hours.
Yes - paid sick leave (1/1/21)
All NY employers must provide some form of sick leave
30:1; 1-4 EEs, 40 hrs unpaid leave; 5-99 EEs or $1M income, 40 hrs paid leave; 100+ EEs, 56 hrs paid leave Frontloading allowed
40/56 hours
Up to 40/56 hours
Yes - COVID paid leave
1-99 employees, five paid sick days, 100+ 14 paid sick days
1-10 employees and $1M or less, EEs use PFL and disability benefits.
This leave is not accrued
Five days for smaller employers, otherwise 14 days
Employees qualify for leave only for three quarantine/isolation orders.
Yes - Paid COVID-19 Vaccination leave (3/21/21 through 12/31/22)
All employers
This leave is not accrued
Four hours of paid leave per COVID-19 vaccine dose
N/A
Yes - (1/1/16) Oregon Sick Time
Employers with 10 or more employees working in Oregon
30:1 Frontloading allowed
40 hours *
*Employers with fewer than 10 employees must provide up to 40 hours of unpaid sick leave)
Up to 40 hours
Yes - (7/1/18) Healthy and Safe Families and Workplaces
Employers with 18 or more employees
35:1 Frontloading allowed
40 hours These are also the caps on the amount of sick time that employees may use annually
All, but employees are still limited by annual usage limits
Yes - (1/1/17) Earned Sick Time
1/1/17 for employers with six or more employees;
1/1/18 for all employers
52:1 Frontloading allowed
40 hours Employers may cap the amount of leave used to 40 per year
All, but employees are still limited by annual usage limits
Yes - paid sick leave (7/1/21)
Employers with home health care workers
30:1
Frontloading allowed
Employers may cap the accrual at 40 hours per year
Yes, accrual up to 40 hours per year
Yes - (1/1/18) Initiative 1433
All employers
40:1
Frontloading allowed
Not addressed
Up to 40 hours
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