Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012, is less than one month away. Aside from the obvious question – Who gets my vote? – employers may be asking themselves a host of voting-related questions:
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Do employees get time off to vote or serve as election workers?
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How much time off must be provided?
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Must employees be paid for voting or election service time?
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Must employees provide advance notice to take time off?
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Are employers required to post notices regarding Election Day?
Depending on the jurisdiction in which the company operates, the answers will vary. Time off to vote is dictated on a state-by-state basis. So employers must be prepared to answer these questions in every state in which they operate and remember that the laws in the majority of states give employees the right to take time off to vote, sometimes with pay, subject to the individual's hours of work and the time
