Paid Time Off Benefits

New and Updated

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Other Leaves: California

  Updated to reflect forthcoming amendments to the domestic violence and crime victim leave law and law requiring leave for crime victims to attend judicial proceedings.

• Date:

  October 3, 2024

  Type:

  News

  California Halts Employers' Right to Require PTO Before Paid Family Leave

  California employers soon will no longer be able to require employees to use up to two weeks of PTO or vacation leave before beginning to receive state paid family leave benefits.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Other Leaves: Illinois

  Updated to reflect the removal of the Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance from this article because it was replaced by the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance

• Date:

  April 16, 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and Insights

  Ask Our Experts: PTO

  Employers often have questions about Paid Time Off (PTO). Ask Our Experts has answers to help them navigate this sometimes-tricky employee benefit.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Other Leaves: Minnesota

  Updated to reflect amendment to the pregnancy accommodation law, effective August 1, 2024.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Minnesota Expands Voting Leave Law

• Type:

  Policies and Procedures

  Holiday Policy

  Enhanced to improve the comprehensiveness, organization and scope of coverage.

• Type:

  Policies and Procedures

  Floating Holiday Policy

  Enhanced to improve the comprehensiveness, organization and scope of coverage.

• Date:

  December 19, 2023

  Type:

  News

  Cook County, Illinois, Enacts Its Own Paid Leave for All, for Any Reason Law

  Employers in Cook County, Illinois, must soon provide paid leave to all employees who work in the county and allow the leave to be used for any reason an employee chooses.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Anaheim, California, Hotel Worker Protections Take Effect