{"id":25036,"date":"2020-10-02T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/household\/?p=25036"},"modified":"2022-02-16T23:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T04:20:16","slug":"amended-nyc-paid-sick-leave-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/household\/amended-nyc-paid-sick-leave-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Amended NYC Paid Sick Leave Law Now in Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The amended NYC Paid Sick Leave Law provides nannies, housekeepers, and other domestic workers with 40 hours of paid safe and sick leave and creates other responsibilities for household employers.<\/p><\/div>\n

Update<\/strong>: New York City’s paid sick leave law was amended to require employers to provide workers who are parents or legal guardians of a child with four hours of paid COVID-19 child vaccination time, per injection and per child. The amendment became effective on December 24, 2021, and is retroactive to November 2, 2021. An employee who is a parent may use child vaccination leave to either accompany the child to get a COVID-19 vaccine injection or care for their child who is experiencing temporary side effects from vaccination.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be eligible, the employee\u2019s child must be under 18, or a child of any age who is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability. Child vaccination leave is in addition to any existing sick leave provided to the worker. An employer cannot require their workers to work additional hours to make up for the time missed. However, employers may require up to seven days of “reasonable notice” of the need to use child vaccination leave. An employer can also request reasonable documentation showing the child\u2019s receipt of the COVID-19 vaccination injection within seven days of use of the leave. Child vaccination leave must be paid at the employee\u2019s regular rate of pay.<\/em><\/p>\n

New York City has amended its Paid Safe and Sick Time Act<\/a> (also referred to as the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act or ESSTA) to align with the state\u2019s paid sick leave law, which was passed earlier in the year. Both the amendments to the NYC Paid Sick Leave Law and the accrual and notice portions of the state law took effect on Sept. 30, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Paid Sick Leave amendments require household employers to:<\/p>\n