Last September, Mayor Mike McGinn signed the city’s new paid sick leave legislation into law right here on Capitol Hill in a ceremony at 12th Ave’s Plum. Starting Saturday, that law takes effect. Wednesday afternoon, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce is hosting an open forum to help the Hill’s businesses with final preparations for the new law that requires paid sick time at Seattle businesses with five or more employees.
Wednesday, August 29
Century Ballroom – West Hall
915 E Pine St (Oddfellows Hall)
3:00 – 5:00 PMOn September 1, 2012, employees in the City of Seattle will begin to accrue paid sick and paid safe time for use when an employee or family member needs to take time off from work due to illness or a critical safety issue. Get your questions answered and learn more at this free workshop. Employees from the Office of Civil Right will be on hand to answer questions one on one. And Cupcakes will be served!
Co-sponsored by The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, Cupcake Royale, the GSBA, and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights.
I remember when employee benefits were something offered to compete with other businesses for quality employees.
What the heck is “safe time”? Is this an additional benefit for City employees, or just a redefinition of sick leave?
My boss grumbles and pretends to hate this but being a nice guy he decided to start applying paid sick leave early for our small (5-7 person) company. He gave us five days right off the bat to use over the year if we need them.
I had to request a rare day off when I had food poisoning and it was so nice to not worry about whether or not I could afford my rent. I could actually relax and concentrate on feeling better. (Yes, I live paycheck to paycheck and money is that tight.)
Seems straight forward:
-To deal with their own illness, injury or health condition.
-To take care of a family member (including domestic partners) with an illness, injury or medical appointment.
-When their place of business has been closed by order of a public official for health reasons.
-For reasons related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Child labor also used to be legal. What is your point?
Don’t forget:
– Recovering from major hangover.
– It’s a day better spent snowboarding than at a job.
Funny you bring up child labor laws. The connection to both is labor unions.
Does anyone know how this affects temp employees? I work through a couple of different ones and they employ hundreds of people at any one time, but I’ve not heard anything from them about it. They DO offer other benefits such as paid holidays and medical benefits, but there are high hour thresholds to qualify, so most employees can never get those.