New Minnesota State Law: Sick and Safe Statute MN 181.9413
Effective Jan. 1, 2024, Minnesota’s earned sick and safe time law requires employers to provide paid leave to employees who work in the state of Minnesota. Sick and safe time is paid leave employers must provide to employees, regardless of the number of employees, in Minnesota that can be used for certain reasons, including when an employee is sick, to care for a sick family member or to seek assistance if an employee or their family member has experienced domestic abuse.
An employee earns one hour of sick and safe time for every 30 hours worked and can earn a maximum of 48 hours each year and will be paid out at the employee’s current rate of pay when used. The accumulation rate is same as the Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit for workers under the collective bargaining agreement (programs of CDCS, CSG and PCA Choice).
What can sick and safe time be used for?
· Employee’s mental or physical illness, treatment or preventive care;
· If injury of employee or employee immediate family* occurs;
· Absence due to domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking of the employee or a family member;
· If public emergency arises.
*Immediate family is as defined: child, adult child, foster child, spouse, sibling,
parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent.
The law requires employers to allow the workers request for sick and safe time as the worker needs. The accumulation of hours will appear on the worker’s pay stub which can be accessed through ADP after pay days.
For workers who fall under the Collective Bargaining Agreement and have opted out of PTO previously, MRCI strongly encourages families to connect with their County Case Manager under the program of CDCS to ensure there enough funds within all budget lines including taxes as the state law does require the leave.
MRCI will send notification to all workers in December with a timesheet for workers.
