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Paterson City Paid Sick Time Ordinance On January 7, 2015, Paterson became the fifth city in New Jersey to implement a sick leave law for employees. The Ordinance is officially called “An Ordinance Creating Paterson Code Chapter 412, Entitled “Sick Leave for Private Employees” Unofficially, the Ordinance is known as the Paterson Earned Sick Leave…

Passaic City jumps on the Sick Leave Bandwagon Effective January 3, 2015, most Passaic employees obtained the right to paid sick days. The new ordinance is officially called “An Ordinance to Add a New Chapter to the Ordinances of Passaic to Promote the Overall Health and Safety of the Residences and Workers of the City…

Overview of Elizabeth’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance On November 3, 2015 citizens of Elizabeth voted an initiative to mandate Paid Sick Leave by privately held employers. Elizabeth Township was the tenth city in New Jersey to ordinance paid sick leave for employees. Earlier in 2015, Bloomfield City council passed an Earned Sick Leave Ordinance and…

Montclair Paid Sick Time Ordinance Means more Compliance for Local Business. On March 4, 2015, the Montclair Paid Sick Time Ordinance took effect and employees in the city started accruing sick leave. Also known as the Sick Leave Ordinance, it was voted into existence in November 2014 by the citizens of Montclair. The ordinance specifically…

Businesses in New Jersey must comply with an explosion of sick leave laws In September of 2014, East Orange, New Jersey passed a sick leave ordinance with three other cities, Montclair, Passaic, and Paterson, making nine New Jersey cities with mandatory paid sick leave for all employees. Newark and Jersey City were the first cities…

Minnesota Sick Leave Law Overview Many businesses don’t realize that Minnesota has a sick leave law in place already. That’s because the Minnesota law varies from sick leave laws of many other states. Minnesota’s law doesn’t require a certain amount of sick leave to be awarded to employees, but rather it oversees the legal uses…

Voters In Arizona Passed a Statewide Sick Leave Initiative On November 8, 2016, voters in Arizona and Washington State passed a ballot initiative for a statewide sick leave law and annual increases for minimum wage. The new Arizona law, the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act, takes effect on July 1, 2017. This gives businesses…

When Cook County passed its Sick Leave Ordinance in 2016, several municipalities immediately threatened to opt out of the new ordinance. The county ordinance was patterned after the Chicago Sick Leave Laws passed earlier in the year. Even with major similarities, the Cook County Sick Leave Ordinance and the Chicago Sick Leave Law does have…

Sick Leave Laws Quick Reference Chart for Washington State, Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle, and SeaTac. Cities throughout Washington State have already enacted their own versions of Paid Sick and Safe Leave Laws. Add to the local laws, that Washington State recently passed a ballot imitative to institute sick leave laws across the entire states. Although many…