Seyfarth Synopsis:
Earlier this month, New Mexico passed a statewide paid sick leave law, requiring all private employers with one or more employees to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave. The law becomes effective July 1, 2022.
On April 7, 2021, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
signed into law the New Mexico Healthy Workplaces Act (the “Act”), House Bill 20,[1] which requires covered employers to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave and permits use of up to 64 hours of paid sick leave per year. New Mexico is the sixteenth state to enact a statewide paid sick leave or paid time off (“PTO”) mandate, joining a number of neighboring or nearby states, including Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada.[2] The new statewide law goes into effect on July 1, 2022.