As of July 1, 2015, any employer with employees in California must comply with the state's new Paid Sick Leave Law (AB 1522).
Below is a brief summary of what this change will mean to employers:
- Employers with even a single employee (including part-time or temporary employees) working at least 30 days a year in California must provide paid sick leave.
- Employers must decide to either keep track of each employee's accrual and use of paid sick leave or include them under existing, more generous Paid Time Off policies.
- Employers who elect to track each employee's paid sick leave must choose how to give them sick leave – in a block grant or accrued over time.
- Employers must confirm with payroll departments or third-party payroll processors that each employee's accrued paid sick leave is reflected on their pay stub or issued on another sheet of paper simultaneously with paychecks.
- Employers must add a California Paid Sick Leave section to employee handbooks.
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