State Alerts

Arizona voters will decide on November 8, 2016, whether to approve the “Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act” (Prop 206) which would provide earned paid sick time to employees. Under Prop 206, Employees would accrue a minimum of one hour of earned paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. Employers with 15 or more employees would be allowed to cap earned paid sick time at 40 hours per year. Employers with fewer than 15 employees would be allowed to cap earned paid sick time at 24 hours per year.

On August 19, 2016, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law The Employee Sick Leave Act (the Act) which goes into effect on January 1, 2017.  Under the Act an employee may use “personal sick leave benefits” provided by the employer for absences due to an illness, injury, or medical appointment of the employee’s child, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent for reasonable periods of time as the employee’s attendance may be necessary, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use sick leave benefits for the employee’s own illness or injury. 

The Chicago City Council has approved an Ordinance (O2016-2678) that will require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees beginning July 1, 2017.