03 May 2017 Maryland paid sick leave bill likely faces governor's veto The Maryland General Assembly passed HB 1, which effective January 1, 2018, would require employers of 15 or more employees to provide paid sick leave to their employees. Employers of 14 or less employees would be required to provide unpaid sick leave to their employees. The bill now rests on Governor Hogan's desk, where it is expected that he will veto it. Legislators have pledged to override his veto at the start of the 2018 legislative session. Under the bill, employees would accrue paid sick leave at a rate of one hour per every 30 hours worked. Employers would not be required to allow an employee to accrue more than 56 sick leave hours per year or use more than 80 hours of sick leave per year. New employees would have to wait 90 days (or 480 hours, if shorter) to begin to use accrued sick leave. Employees would be allowed to carryover unused sick leave to the next year. The bill would, retroactive to January 1, 2017, preempt local jurisdictions from enacting a paid sick leave ordinance. Governor Hogan proposed his own version of a paid sick leave law that would require employers of 50 or more employees to provide full-time employees with 40 hours of paid sick leave per year and part-time employees with 30 hours of paid sick leave. (HB 382, SB 305)
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