San Francisco Sick Leave Law Update

June 13, 2007 by Beeson Tayer & Bodine

Starting June 5, 2007, San Francisco’s new law requiring employers to provide paid sick leave is fully operational. Employers had been given a grace period of sorts through June 5 permitting them to delay paying sick leave that had accrued between February and June 2007. As a reminder, the law requires employers to pay employees 1 hour of sick leave for each 30 hours worked. The City has issued regulations regarding one issue that affects many Teamster Locals – does the law apply to workers who make deliveries in San Francisco, but who are domiciled outside of San Francisco? The answer is “Yes,” so long as the employee performs 56 hours of work in San Francisco in any given year. This means that an employer is going to have to keep track of a worker’s hours in San Francisco or just assume that it’s drivers with San Francisco routes work over 56 hours. Time records may still be necessary in any event because the sick leave provision accumulates only on the number of hours worked in San Francisco. The regulation also clarifies that the law does not apply to workers at SFO, but instead only reaches employees performing work within the geographic limits of the City.

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