The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) has published a new “Notice of Employee Rights: Protected Time Off

Employers must also update and redistribute their sick/safe leave policies, post the new City notice in a conspicuous area in the workplace, and provide the notice to all new hires. Employees must provide the notice in English and, if available on the DCWP website (here), an employee’s primary language. With respect to posting the notice at the worksite, employers must post the notice in English and in any language spoken as a primary language by at least 5% of employees at the workplace (again, if translations are available on the DCWP website - currently, only the English version is available).

Th updated notice also reflects a recent shift by the DCWP to refer to the ESSTA as the “Protected Time Off Law” and sick and safe time under the ESSTA as “Protected Time Off,” terms that the DCWP has also adopted in its proposed rules to amend the ESSTA.