{"id":2056,"date":"2025-03-27T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:42:08","slug":"washington-state-updates-paid-sick-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/03\/27\/washington-state-updates-paid-sick-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Updates Paid Sick Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sick-Leave-Resized.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2055\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sick-Leave-Resized.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sick-Leave-Resized-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sick-Leave-Resized-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Washington employers must provide non-exempt employees with at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours the employee works, which employees may use for certain legally protected reasons,&nbsp;and&nbsp;allow employees to carry over 40 unused hours each year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the definition of who is considered an employee\u2019s family member or child for purposes of using paid sick leave has been expanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These changes went into effect on January 1, 2025. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityleavelaw.com\/2025\/03\/articles\/paid-sick-leave-2\/2025-updates-to-washingtons-paid-sick-leave-law-what-employers-need-to-know\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2025 Updates to Washington\u2019s Paid Sick Leave Law: What Employers Need to Know<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington employers must provide non-exempt employees with at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours the employee works, which employees may use for certain legally protected reasons,&nbsp;and&nbsp;allow employees to carry over 40 unused hours each year.&nbsp; Also, the definition of who is considered an employee\u2019s family member or child for purposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[121,134],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-paid-sick-leave","tag-washington-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}