Ohio Sick Day Law on the Docket: The Fall Out?

April 16th, 2007 Posted by Mark

So who can employers trust? Well, loyal readers, as I am sure you know already. The best person to trust is yourself when it comes to making policies for your employees that fit within the guidelines and regulations provided by your state and federal department of labors, as outlined in those labor law poster collections that you lawfully display on the walls of your work sites.

And as it stands now, the law of the land—at least in Ohio and in all of the states—is that there is no requirement for how many sick days that an employer of any size must give their employees. In fact, there is no requirement at all that employers give any sick days. Besides Ohio, however, there is some movement in New Jersey, Illinois, Washington state, Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas. In the first three states—New Jersey, Illinois, and Washington—the legislature is considering a law to create some sort of requirement and actually have introduced bills into the mix to do just that.

In Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas, the laws are just in the research and consideration stage, according to my sources, and no bills have yet to be introduced in the halls of the state assemblies.

There is one city in the entire country that has a mandatory sick day rule for its employers. Can you guess which city that is? Home of the Grateful Dead, the Golden Gate Bridge, and some the wildest hilly roads in all of the world. Yup, you got it—San Francisco.

The law that the Ohio union wants would make it so that all employers with more than 24 employees would need to give those seven sick days to employees, which could then be used for their own sicknesses, injuries, medical issues, or preventative doctor visits, as well as those for their children, older parents, or their spouses.

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