Paid Leave Law for Family Care

On May 29, 2021, Gov. Sisolak passed AB 190 into law, requiring employers who provide paid or unpaid sick leave to allow employees to use that leave to take care of an immediate family member who has an illness, injury, medical appointment or other authorized medical need. Immediate family members include children, foster children, spouses, domestic partners, siblings, parents, mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law, grandchildren, grandparents or stepparents of an employee, as well as persons for whom employees are legal guardians.

Employees can take this leave under the same conditions and to the same extent as the leave taken for themselves, although employers may limit the amount of sick leave that an employee may use for this purpose to an amount which is equal to but not less than the amount of sick leave that the employee accrues during a six-month period. Employers must post a poster currently under development by the state’s labor commissioner in the workplace to inform employees of their rights under this new law.

Employers in the state should be aware of this new law.

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