Healey publishes final sick-time regulations

BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey has published final regulations to implement the new earned sick time law, which provides 1 million more workers in Massachusetts with access to sick leave for the first time.

The earned sick time law was passed by voters on the November ballot and goes into effect July 1. The final regulations, along with the law and other guidance materials, are now available on the attorney general’s website.

According to a news release, the office’s final regulations include clarifications and adjustments to provisions regarding the accrual, use and payment of earned sick time, employer size, notice requirements and rules for requiring medical documentation. The final regulations also include clarifications on when employees can make up time instead of using it and how employers with existing leave policies can keep their own plans.

Massachusetts will be joining California and Connecticut as the only states with an earned sick-time law.

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