Bill Text: MN SF840 | 2013-2014 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Employee personal sick leave benefit use expansion
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Secretary of State Chapter 87 [SF840 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF840-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Employee personal sick leave benefit use expansion
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Secretary of State Chapter 87 [SF840 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2013-SF840-Engrossed.html
1.2relating to employment; modifying use of personal sick leave benefits;amending
1.3Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413, is amended to read:
1.6181.9413 SICKOR INJURED CHILD CARE LEAVE BENEFITS; CARE
1.7OF RELATIVES.
1.8(a) An employee, if authorized by the employer, may use personal sick leave
1.9benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an illness of or injury to the
1.10employee's minor or adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, or stepparent, for
1.11such reasonable periods of time as the employee's attendance with the child may be
1.12necessary, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use sick leave benefits
1.13for the employee's own illness or injury. This section applies only to personal sick leave
1.14benefits payable to the employee from the employer's general assets.
1.15(b) For purposes of this section, "personal sick leave benefits" means time accrued
1.16and available to an employee to be used as a result of absence from work due to personal
1.17illness or injury, but does not include short-term or long-term disability or other salary
1.18continuation benefits.
1.19(c) This section does not prevent an employer from providing greater sick leave
1.20benefits than are provided for under this section.
1.21EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2013, and applies to sick
1.22leave used on or after that date.
1.3Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413.
1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 181.9413, is amended to read:
1.6181.9413 SICK
1.7OF RELATIVES.
1.8(a) An employee, if authorized by the employer, may use personal sick leave
1.9benefits provided by the employer for absences due to an illness of or injury to the
1.10employee's minor or adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent, or stepparent, for
1.11
1.12necessary, on the same terms upon which the employee is able to use sick leave benefits
1.13for the employee's own illness or injury. This section applies only to personal sick leave
1.14benefits payable to the employee from the employer's general assets.
1.15(b) For purposes of this section, "personal sick leave benefits" means time accrued
1.16and available to an employee to be used as a result of absence from work due to personal
1.17illness or injury, but does not include short-term or long-term disability or other salary
1.18continuation benefits.
1.19(c) This section does not prevent an employer from providing greater sick leave
1.20benefits than are provided for under this section.
1.21EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2013, and applies to sick
1.22leave used on or after that date.
