Paid sick leave requirement daunting for Pittsburgh business owners – By Bob Bauder (Trib Live) / Jan 3 2020
Pittsburgh employers say their biggest headache in complying with the city’s paid sick leave regulations will be tracking employee hours, particularly for part-time and seasonal employees.
Starting March 15, business owners in Pittsburgh will be required to offer employees paid sick leave.
The city’s Law Department last month issued guidelines for administering an ordinance approved by City Council and signed by Mayor Bill Peduto in 2015. The guidelines gave businesses 90 days to be in compliance.
“I think the biggest challenge for a small business like myself is going to be the tracking of the hours that accrue more than the actual paying out of the sick time,” said Tim Maloney, owner of Brighton Heights-based Dirt Doctors Cleaning Service. “I have employees who work in the city and out of the city, and some do both. Then I have employees who clean houses. On the same day they might be on the North Side and then they may be in the North Hills. How do you track that?”
Under the ordinance, employers with 15 or more employees must give them up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per year.
Employers with fewer than 15 employees must provide up to 24 hours of paid sick leave per year. Those businesses can offer unpaid sick time for the first year, but must begin paying workers for time off after that.
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