New York City
Under New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law or ESSTA), employers with 5 or more employees who work more than 80 hours per calendar year in New York City must provide paid safe and sick leave to workers. Smaller employers must provide unpaid safe and sick leave.

NYC employees/workers can use safe and sick leave for the care and treatment of themselves or a family member and to seek legal and social services assistance or take other safety measures if the employee or a family member may be the victim of any act or threat of domestic violence or unwanted sexual contact, stalking, or human trafficking.

New Jersey
New Jersey’s Earned Sick Leave Law allows employees to accrue 1 hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours each year.

Workers can begin using earned sick leave accrued under this law on February 26, 2019, or the 120th calendar day after you begin employment, whichever is later. However, the law permits employers to create policies that provide additional leave time and that permit workers to use sick leave at an earlier date.

Up to 40 hours of unused earned sick leave can be carried over into the next benefit year. However, the law requires that employees use up to 40 hours of leave only per benefit year. Alternatively, employers can offer to purchase workers’ unused earned sick leave at the end of the benefit year.