CityHealth: Earned Sick Leave Laws

Each year since 2016, CityHealth, an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, has worked with partners to advance a package of 12 evidence-based policy solutions aimed at improving health and well-being by collecting and assessing the policies in the 75 largest US cities. The Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at the Temple University Beasley School of Law works with CityHealth to assess nine of the 12 policy topics each year by researching, collecting, coding, and scoring the state, county, and city law involved in shaping each policy at the city level.

CPHLR assesses earned sick leave laws for CityHealth each year. Earned sick leave laws require companies to provide paid time off to their employees to help stop the spread of contagious illness, allow employees to care for sick family members, and/or seek services or treatment relating to incidences of domestic violence.

This dataset is longitudinal and displays key features of state, county, and city laws regarding earned sick leave laws across the 75 largest cities in effect as of July 1, 2022, through June 1, 2024.

Important Note: This version of the CityHealth Earned Sick Leave Laws datasets is published on LawAtlas.org to provide a longitudinal snapshot of the laws in effect from July 1, 2022, through June 1, 2024. Unlike the Earned Sick Leave Law data published at CityHealth.org, it does not include laws passed before June 1, 2024, with future effective dates. Medal determinations for the CityHealth project do include and score laws passed before the assessment publication with future effective date, so the coding here may not match the data and medal results currently available on CityHealth.org. Please contact [e-mail] if you have any questions about the discrepancies between the two sources.