On November 4, 2014, Massachusetts voters passed a ballot
initiative requiring that all employees be entitled to earn and use
up to 40 hours of earned sick time in a calendar year. There were
significant ambiguities in the law (as discussed in our previous
alert), but the law also enabled the Massachusetts Attorney
General to "adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out
the purpose and provisions of this section." On April
24, 2015, the Attorney General's office published its proposed
regulations implementing this law.
What's On The Table
The proposed regulations do clarify some points of uncertainty in
the law, summarized below:
The proposed regulations define an employee as "any person
who performs services for an employer" for compensation,
including "full time, part-time, seasonal, and temporary
employees" as well as "interns who must be treated as
employees under Massachusetts state law." .As set forth in the
original statute, employers with 10 or
