UPDATE: Sept. 4, 2008 - Ohioans for Healthy Families announced today that it has agreed to pull the paid sick leave issue from the Nov. 4 ballot. OCSEA BLOG

Implementation: How would proposed program work?

The OCSEA Board of Directors recently endorsed the Ohio Healthy Families 2008 ballot initiative regarding paid sick leave.

The proposed law would require employers to provide the following:

• Seven (7) days of paid sick leave annually for employees working 30 hours or more a week;

or

• A pro rata amount of paid sick leave annually for employees working less than 30 hours per week or less than 1,560 hours per year.

If enacted, here's how the legislated program would work:

• Sick leave would accumulate at least monthly and begin accrual immediately.

• However, employers would not be required to grant sick leave during the first 90 days of the employment relationship. It would be in the employer’s discretion to loan sick leave to an employee in advance of accrual.

• Accrued sick leave would carry over from year to year, but employers would not be required to permit the accumulation of more than seven days per year.

• For periods of sick leave that are less than a normal workday, sick leave would be calculated on an hourly basis, or the smallest increment used by the employer’s payroll system to calculated other types of leave.

• For employees whose schedule varies on a weekly basis, a weekly average of hours worked over a twelve week period would be used to calculate the accrual of sick leave.

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Next steps: How can we make this proposal law?

FAQ on Health Families Act (PDF)

Proposed Summary of Healthy Families Act (PDF)

Website of The Healthy Families Act

Website of SPAN Ohio