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Mandatory Paid Sick Days
This indicator focuses exclusively on statewide laws mandating paid sick days to employees. Since 2020, four additional states (Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, and New York) have enacted paid sick leave laws, bringing the total to 18 states enacting such policies in the last three years.
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This indicator gives credit to states with statewide policies mandating that employees are provided paid sick days.
Scoring: States received 1.0 point for statewide laws mandating paid family leave.
Current year 2023 data from Society for Human Resource Management
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