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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has permanently enjoined a controversial Dallas ordinance requiring employers to provide paid sick leave benefits to certain employees. The permanent injunction took effect on March 31, 2021.
Dallas was the third city in Texas to enact a paid sick leave ordinance, following the adoption of nearly identical laws in Austin and San Antonio. All three would have required covered private employers to provide certain paid sick leave benefits to employees based on hours worked within city limits. While the Austin and San Antonio laws were enjoined before they took effect, legal challenges to the Dallas law were not prosecuted until after it became effective on August 1, 2019. The ordinance remained in effect for approximately eight months until March 30, 2020, when the federal court