Cook County has amended the procedural rules for the county’s Paid Leave Ordinance. Here is a summary of the changes:
- Compensation and Benefits: Employers are not required to provide an employee using paid leave with additional benefits (e.g., seniority, health benefits), but may elect to do so. If an employer elects to do so, then the accrual of such benefits must be in the same manner and to the same extent as if they had performed the regular work.
- Hours Worked: Employees no longer accrue paid leave while they are using accrued paid leave.
- Disciplinary Leave: An employer’s paid leave policy may allow an employee to elect to use paid leave when the employee has been suspended or otherwise placed on leave for disciplinary reasons. The employee may elect touse paid leave for some or all of the disciplinary leave.
- Payment of Paid Leave: Wages earned while using paid leave must be paid no later than the next regularpayroll period beginning after the paid leave was used by the employee.
You can find the changes here.
