The new Paid Sick Leave law.
The following will be effective on February 21, 2025.
- All employers in Michigan must provide an accrual of 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.
- Employers with less than 10 employees must provide up to 40 hours of paid sick time per year.
- Employers with 10 or more employees must provide up to 72 hours of paid sick time per year.
- Employers must allow for a carryover of unused paid sick time from one year to the next with no cap.
- Employers can only require a doctor’s note after 3 consecutive sick days off.
- There are no eligibility exceptions to the law – everyone is eligible regardless of their employee status. Part-time, seasonal, temporary, exempt or non-exempt.
- All employers must provide the paid sick leave regardless of number of employees.
- Employer must pay tipped-employees based on base wage plus average tips from the prior week.
- Employer must allow for paid sick leave to be taken on the smallest time increment that the HR software allows.

