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Client Alert—DC’s “Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act” Likely to Become Law

28-Mar-2008

by Anne E. Langford, Julia E. Judish


The District of Columbia is poised to require employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees and may well be a bellwether for passage of similar bills in other states and localities. San Francisco already has a mandatory paid leave statute on the books, and Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming and the City of Milwaukee are considering paid sick leave laws.