Two Weeks of Employee Paid Vacation
A paid vacation bill is under consideration and Mayor De Blasio has made a pledge to support the bill. It appears the NYC Earned Safe and Sick Time Act will serve as a model for the new paid vacation bill.
The National Law Review stated that no other city or state in the nation has a law like this. New York City would be the first if the law passes.
The paid vacation bill would apply to private sector employers, who have at least five employees, and the requirement to receive the benefit is that the employees must work at least 80 hours a year.
What Are the Requirements of the Earned Safe and Sick Leave Law?
New York City’s Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law has the following provisions:
- Employers with five or more employees, who work more than 80 hours per calendar year in NYC, must provide paid safe and sick leave to employees.
- Safe and sick leave accrues at a rate of one hour of leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours per calendar year.
- Accrual begins on the employee’s first day of employment
- Employees can begin using accrued leave 120 days after their first day of work
- Employers with fewer than five employees must provide unpaid safe and sick leave.
Paid Family Leave, Another Paid Time-Off Benefit in NY
In addition to the above law, New York also has the new Paid Family Leave benefit, which was passed into law. This paid time off enables employees who are sick, have a sick family member or who have a newborn baby to take paid time off from work. As of 2019, paid family leave is now 10 weeks (previously it was eight weeks) and the average weekly wage for the leave has increased from 50 to 55 percent.
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