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Paid sick leave: Arizona

This guide provides HR professionals with an in‑depth review of Arizona paid sick and safe leave requirements under the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act, including coverage rules, employee eligibility, accrual and use of leave, and employer notice and recordkeeping obligations.

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by Michelle Barrett Falconer and Susie Wine, Littler

Summary

This guide provides an in-depth review of Arizona paid sick and safe leave requirements under the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act.

In this guide, learn about:

  • Paid sick leave
    • Employer coverage
    • Employee eligibility
    • Qualifying reasons for leave
    • Accrual, use and carryover of leave
    • Frontloading
    • Compensation and benefits
    • Changes in employment
    • Employee notice requirements
    • Employee documentation requirements
    • Employer notice and posting requirements
    • Recordkeeping requirements
    • Confidentiality
    • Prohibited actions
    • Enforcement and penalties
    • Interaction with other laws and policies
  • Paid prenatal personal leave
  • Future developments

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Jurisdiction: Arizona

Latest updates

Updated to reflect amendments to the recordkeeping requirements, effective February 9, 2023.

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Littler

Littler, the largest global employment and labor law practice, exclusively represents the global employer community in all aspects of employment and labor law. Littler litigates, mediates and negotiates some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.

Littler’s practice areas are extensive and their expertise crosses over multiple industries and spans a wide array of employment law areas such as discrimination and harassment, labor management relations, executive compensation, ERISA and benefit plan litigation, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, hiring, performance management and termination, employment practices audits and wage and hour.

Littler is the exclusive author of Brightmine’s prestigious Employee Handbook. Their experience with preparing employee handbooks and their ongoing contributions to Brightmine in the areas of federal and state leaves of absence, disabilities and multistate employer issues made them a natural fit to partner with us on the creation of a robust set of model handbook policy statements and guidance for federal, state and key municipalities.

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