Courtesy of CalChamber:
If you don’t define your paid sick leave policy, California does it for you.
Under California’s mandatory paid sick leave (PSL) law, employers can limit the amount of PSL to 3 days or 24 hours per year. But you must communicate this limitation in writing. Without a written policy, your company must use the statutory mandated accrual rate of 1 hour of sick pay for every 30 hours worked. This can result in a FT employee potentially accruing over 69 hours of PSL per year and being allowed to carry that over to the next year, and so on. That’s nearly 9 days per year if the employee works a 40-hour workweek.
It’s nearly a year since the PSL benefit for all California employees took effect on July 1, 2015. As a California employer, you can choose different ways to provide the required PSL benefit. Just one catch: You must inform employees of your policy. It is recommended that you create and distribute a written policy that shows your compliance with the mandatory PSL law.
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