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The law went into effect on July 1, 2015, [3] with approximately 200 clarifications and adjustments made by the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. [4] The law requires that companies with 11 or more employees give workers up to 40 hours of paid sick time a year, while smaller companies may offer it unpaid.
Companies with 25 or more employees are required to give anyone who works over 12 hours a week paid sick and safe leave. Workers earn 1 hour of paid sick and safe leave every 30 hours and can use up to 40 hours a year. Unused time can be carried over, but employers can limit the number of accrued hours to 64.
On November 4, 2014, Massachusetts voters approved "Question 4", a ballot measure mandating sick pay for all part-time and full-time workers at firms with more than 11 employees. The law was passed 59–41 and came into effect July 1, 2015.
Under the new laws, workers can accrue one hour of paid sick time for every 30 they work, capped at 56 hours per year at large employers and 40 at small ones. ... There is no federal law ...
In July, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled the state’s current laws on paid sick time were installed unconstitutionally by lawmakers in 2018. Back then, the Legislature adopted language from two ...
Additional Information: Paid Time off in the USA [9] Roughly twelve states, including Washington DC currently have legislation in place for regulating paid sick leave. Nevada and Maine, which both passed laws in 2019, have the only policies saying that state-mandated PTO can be used for things other than illness.
Case law: "Massachusetts", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565, Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
The Massachusetts General Laws is a codification of many of the statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth's laws are promulgated by an elected bicameral ("two-chamber") legislative body, the Massachusetts General Court. The resulting laws—both Session Laws and General Laws—together make up the statutory law of the ...