Paying the Employee for the Sick Day

Employers can choose from three different methods to calculate how to compensate employees who take PSL. No matter which method employers choose, they must pay employees no later than the payday for the next regular payroll period after the sick leave was taken.¹

Employers can use any one of the following three methods:

1. Calculate paid sick time for nonexempt employees in the same manner as the “regular rate of pay” for the workweek in which the employee uses paid sick time, regardless of whether the employee actually works overtime in that workweek;
2. Calculate paid sick time for nonexempt employees by “dividing the employee’s total wages,