Riding the Paid Sick Leave Wave–Santa Monica Edition

We’ve previously covered California’s sweeping Paid Sick Leave Law that took effect July 1, 2015 here and here. Now Santa Monica – not to be outdone by Bay Area sister municipalities in San Francisco, Oakland, and Emeryville – enacted its own paid sick leave ordinance (“Ordinance”) on January 26, 2016 – just two weeks after it was initially proposed.

 

The Santa Monica Ordinance, like its Northern California counterparts, mandates that most employers provide paid sick leave well in excess of California requirements, and allows covered employees of employers with 26 or more employees to accrue up to 72 hours of paid sick leave. Further, unlike California law, the Ordinance does not place an annual use limit on accrued sick leave.

 

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