Will all employees earn the full amount of paid sick leave each year no matter how many or how few hours they work?

If an employer chooses to offer sick leave on an accrual basis, some employees may earn less than five days or 40 hours per year without any violation of the paid sick leave law.

Specifically, under the accrual method where employees earn one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours that they work, an employee who works less than 1,200 hours throughout the course of a year will not accrue a full 40 hours of sick leave.

For example, an employee who works one eight-hour day per week would work 416 hours each year, and based on the one hour for every 30 hours worked method would accrue a little less than 14 hours of paid sick leave. Even though the employee will earn less than 40 hours