States, cities prescribe paid sick leave rules (January 12, 2014)
By: Matthew Daneman, USA Today
A growing number of cities and states are starting to require employers to provide paid sick leave.
Jersey City’s Earned Sick Time Ordinance goes into effect Jan. 24. New York City’s Earned Sick Time Act – passed in June when the City Council overrode a veto by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg– goes into effect April 1.
They join such cities as Portland, Ore., where paid sick leave rules went into effect Jan. 1; Seattle, where paid sick leave rules went into effect Sept. 1, 2012; Washington in 2008; and San Francisco, which passed such regulations in 2006 and implemented them in 2007.