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Seyfarth Synopsis:
As expected, on Friday, March 12, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed New York State’s COVID-19 Vaccine Paid Leave Bill into law. The law took immediate effect and will expire on December 31, 2022.
On March 12, Governor Cuomo
signed legislation granting public and private employees up to 4 hours of paid leave per COVID-19 vaccine injection. As reported in our prior
alert, it is not clear whether the bill, which took effect immediately, will be retroactively effective for those employees who received a COVID-19 vaccine before March 12, 2021. It is also not clear whether, if COVID-19 vaccine paid leave does have retroactive effect, how employers should handle other paid time off that may have been used by an employee for their vaccine-related time off.
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The Westchester County Human Rights Commission (the Commission ) has announced that the county s Earned Sick Leave Law, which went into effect on April 10, 2019, has been
preempted by New York s Paid Sick Leave Law ( Law or PSLL ), which took effect on September 30, 2020.
Westchester County s law had required that eligible employees
accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to a
maximum of 40 hours per year.
As we previously covered, the PSLL applies to
all private employers and employees in New York State, and requires
Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this month, the New York State Legislature passed a
that would require employers to provide every employee a paid leave of absence for each COVID-19 vaccine injection they receive. The paid leave of absence would need to cover a sufficient period of time, not to exceed four hours per COVID-19 vaccine injection. Outside of a few potential caveats (see below), the entire leave period provided for in the bill would be in addition to any other leave the employee is entitled to, including, but not limited to, paid sick leave under the
. If signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo, which is expected, the bill would become effective immediately and expire on December 31, 2022.
The Westchester County Human Rights Commission (the “Commission”) has announced that the county’s Earned Sick Leave Law, which went into effect on April 10, 2019, has been preempted by.