Policy Updates
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UPDATE Maine Paid Family and Medical Leave (for Employers Using a Private Plan)
We are updating this policy to reflect revised agency guidance regarding the ability of an employee to supplement benefits with accrued paid time off.
UPDATE Delaware Paid Family Leave
We are updating the explanatory notes for this policy to include additional information regarding a newly covered employer’s obligation to provide notice of coverage.
UPDATE Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Paid Sick Time
We have updated this policy to note current applicability, as well as to reflect minor modifications to the definition of a covered employee.
NEW Maryland Baltimore Pregnancy Accommodations
We have added this policy because Baltimore now requires employers to provide a handbook policy addressing employee rights to reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, recovery from pregnancy, or related conditions.
UPDATE Minnesota Nursing Mothers, Lactating employees, and Pregnancy Accommodations
We have revised this policy for consistency with the state's updated model notice.
UPDATE Colorado Overtime
We have replaced the required poster with the newly issued 2026 version.
UPDATE Minnesota: Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time
The required poster provided by the city has been added to the end of the policy to ensure all policy and related notice obligations that must be contained in an employee handbook are fully addressed.
UPDATE: Connecticut Paid Sick and Safe Time
Effective January 1, 2026, employers with at least 11 employees in Connecticut must provide employees (other than a seasonal employee who works 120 days or less in a year) with up to 40 hours of paid sick and safe time. The logic for how this policy populates has been updated accordingly.
UPDATE Maine Earned Paid Leave
We have updated this policy to clarify considerations with carryover if leave time is frontloaded.
UPDATE Delaware Paid Family and Medical Leave
This policy has been updated to reflect amendments impacting policy language related to use of paid time off benefits to supplement paid benefits and the calculation of the benefit-eligible period.