Legislative Overview for Q1 2024
Is your absence and disability management program prepared for the 19 new laws, ordinances, or regulations that are effective in the first quarter of 2024?
This page provides direct links to legal details, a summary of the change, and the date legislation becomes effective.
California
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Paid Sick Leave |
Increases the number of job-protected paid leave hours employees can receive and use each year; extends some protections to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement; creates partial preemption of local sick and safe time standards. |
California SB 616 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Leaves of Absence |
Provides for a leave of absence for a reproductive loss event, including the final day of a failed adoption, failed surrogacy, miscarriage, stillbirth, or unsuccessful assisted reproduction. |
California SB 848 |
Jan.1, 2024 |
Colorado
Connecticut
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Workers’ Compensation |
Expands workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress injuries for all employees, not just police officers, firefighters, emergency medical service personnel, emergency 911 dispatchers and similar employees. |
Connecticut SB 913 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
Illinois
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Workers’ Compensation |
Provides that an employer that fails to carry workers’ compensation insurance may have its business license revoked and pay fines. |
Illinois HB 2145 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Leaves of Absence |
Requires an employer to provide up to two workweeks of unpaid leave to an employee grieving a family or household member killed in a crime of violence. |
Illinois HB 2493 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Leaves of Absence |
Employers with at least 50 full-time employees in Illinois are required to provide unpaid bereavement leave to an employee who has lost a child by suicide or homicide. The amount of the leave depends on the size of the employer. |
Illinois SB 2034 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Leaves of Absence |
Requires employers with businesses with 51 or more employees to allow employees to use up to ten days of paid leave in a 12-month period for organ donation. |
Illinois HB 3516 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Paid Leave |
Creates the Paid Leave for All Workers Act to permit employees to accrue 40 hours of paid leave per year to use for any purpose. |
Illinois SB 208 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Notice Requirements |
Requires employers with remote workers to provide notices required under certain employment laws by email or on the employer’s website. |
Illinois HB 3733 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Paid Leave |
Employees will accrue one hour of Paid Sick Leave for every 40 hours worked and may use up to 40 hours of Paid Leave per year. Depending on employer size, Paid Leave may need to be paid out on separation of employment. |
Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance |
Dec. 31, 2023 |
Minnesota
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Paid Leave |
The new Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) law requires employers to provide employees one hour of paid time off for every 30 hours worked up to a maximum of 48 hours each year when an employee is sick, to care for a sick family member, or to seek assistance if an employee or their family member has experienced domestic abuse. |
Chapter 53 – MN Laws |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Paid Leave |
Amends the city’s paid sick and safe time ordinance to align it with the statewide ESST law. |
Minnesota: Bloomington Ordinance No. 2023-24 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Paid Leave |
Amends the city’s paid sick and safe time ordinance to align it with the statewide ESST law. |
Minnesota: St. Paul Ordinance No. 23-48 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
Oregon
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Leaves of Absence |
Expands eligibility for protected leave under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) to include bias crime victims. |
Oregon HB 3443 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Leaves of Absence |
Defines “active service of the state” for purposes of the requirement that an employer grant a leave of absence during a period of active military service. |
Oregon SB 1033 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
Tennessee
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Family ⁄ Medical Leave Insurance |
Authorizes the issuance of an insurance policy that an employer may offer to an employee for the purpose of providing family leave benefits. |
Tennessee SB 454 (HB609) |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
Washington
| Type |
Summary |
Legal Details |
Effective Date |
| Paid Family and Medical Leave |
Provides that a current employer, a current employer’s third-party administrator, or an employee may request access to an employee’s Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave Act claim records for the purpose of administering internal employer leave or benefit practices. |
Washington SB 5586 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| Paid Sick Leave |
Provides that employers must pay certain temporary construction workers, who have not been employed for 90 days, the balance of their accrued and unused paid sick leave upon separation from employment. |
Washington SB 5111 |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
