MichiganHB 40022025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Labor: benefits; requirements for an employer to provide earned sick time, modify. Amends title and secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 12 of 2018 PA 338 (MCL 408.962 et seq.) & adds sec. 3a. Last Action: assigned PA 2'25 with immediate effect

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Bill Overview

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5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.

Your sick time when you change jobs

If you transfer within the same employer, your sick time follows you. If you leave and return to the same employer within 2 months, your unused sick time is restored unless your employer paid it out. If a new employer takes over your workplace, it must honor existing sick time unless the prior employer paid it out. If you are covered by a multiemployer plan or union contract, your employer cannot make you wait 120 days to use sick leave you already earned with a contributing employer.

How much paid sick time you get

Starting February 21, 2025, if your employer is not a small business, you earn 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. You can use up to 72 hours a year, and unused hours can carry over up to 72 hours. Sick time is paid at the higher of your normal hourly wage or Michigan’s minimum wage; tips, overtime premiums, and bonuses do not count. Accrual starts on February 21, 2025 or your hire date. If you are hired after that date, your employer may require a 120‑day wait before you can use it. Your employer sets the 12‑month “year,” and some workers are treated as 40 hours per week (or 30 at small employers) for accrual. Employers may give the full year’s hours up front; if they do, unused front‑loaded hours do not carry over, and they do not have to track or pay them out. For part‑time workers, any upfront grant must match a written hours estimate, and the employer must add more if you work more than expected.

When and how to use sick time

You can use sick time for your illness, care, or prevention; for family care; for help after domestic violence or sexual assault; for certain school or child‑care meetings; and during specific public health closures or exposures. You may take time in 1‑hour blocks (or your employer’s smallest increment). If your need is foreseeable, your employer can require up to 7 days’ notice; if not foreseeable, you must give notice as soon as you can or follow a written policy your employer gave you. If you are out more than 3 days in a row, you must give reasonable proof within 15 days; your employer pays your out‑of‑pocket costs and any provider charges if you have health insurance. Your boss cannot force you to find a replacement or share sensitive medical or violence details, but they may discipline misuse or breaking notice rules.

Your sick time rights and enforcement

Your employer cannot interfere with your rights or punish you for using sick time, filing a complaint, or helping an investigation. Absence rules cannot count earned sick time against you. Employers must give a written notice at hire or within 30 days of February 21, 2025, and post notices in English, Spanish, and other languages spoken by at least 10% of the workforce if the department has translated them. You can file a claim with the department within 3 years; the department can order back pay, damages, reinstatement, and bring a lawsuit. Fines can reach up to $1,000 per retaliatory action, up to 8 times a worker’s hourly wage per violation for failing to provide sick time, and up to $100 per willful posting violation. Any policy that gives fewer rights is void, but if a union contract is in force on February 21, 2025—or some individual contracts signed by 12/31/2024 and lasting no more than 3 years—the law applies when that contract expires.

Small business sick time start and limits

For small businesses (10 or fewer workers), rules start October 1, 2025. Employees earn at least 1 hour for every 30 hours worked and can use up to 40 hours a year, or the employer may front‑load 40 hours. From February 21, 2025 to October 1, 2025, small employers do not have to let workers accrue, provide, or track paid sick time. If a small business had no employees on or before February 21, 2022, it does not have to comply until 3 years after hiring its first employee.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

Jay DeBoyer
Republican • House

Cosponsors

Alicia St. Germaine
Republican • House
Angela Rigas
Republican • House
Ann Bollin
Republican • House
Bill Schuette
Republican • House
Bradley Slagh
Republican • House
Brian BeGole
Republican • House
Cameron Cavitt
Republican • House
Curtis VanderWall
Republican • House
David Martin
Republican • House
David Prestin
Republican • House
Donni Steele
Republican • House
Douglas Wozniak
Republican • House
Gregory Alexander
Republican • House
Gregory Markkanen
Republican • House
Jaime Greene
Republican • House
James DeSana
Republican • House
Jason Woolford
Republican • House
Jennifer Wortz
Republican • House
John Roth
Republican • House
Joseph Aragona
Republican • House
Joseph Fox
House
Kathy Schmaltz
Republican • House
Ken Borton
Republican • House
Luke Meerman
Republican • House
Matt Bierlein
Republican • House
Matt Maddock
Republican • House
Mike Harris
Republican • House
Mike Hoadley
Republican • House
Mike Mueller
Republican • House
Nancy DeBoer
Republican • House
Nancy Jenkins-Arno
Republican • House
Parker Fairbairn
Republican • House
Pauline Wendzel
Republican • House
Sarah Lightner
Republican • House
Steve Frisbie
Republican • House
Tim Kelly
Republican • House
Timothy Beson
Republican • House
Tom Kunse
Republican • House
William Bruck
Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 174 • No: 77

Senate vote • 2/20/2025

PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT

Yes: 26 • No: 10 • Other: 1

House vote • 2/20/2025

roll call

Yes: 81 • No: 29

House vote • 1/23/2025

passed; given immediate effect

Yes: 67 • No: 38 • Other: 5

Actions Timeline

assigned PA 2'25 with immediate effect
2/25/2025House
filed with Secretary of State 02/21/2025 01:10 PM
2/25/2025House
approved by the Governor 02/21/2025 11:40 AM
2/25/2025House
presented to the Governor 02/21/2025 01:30 AM
2/25/2025House
bill ordered enrolled
2/20/2025House
title amendment agreed to
2/20/2025House
roll call Roll Call #12 Yeas 81 Nays 29 Excused 0 Not Voting 0
2/20/2025House
Senate substitute (S-3) concurred in
2/20/2025
rule suspended
2/20/2025House
laid over one day under the rules
2/20/2025House
returned from Senate with substitute (S-3) with immediate effect and title amendment
2/20/2025House
RETURNED TO HOUSE
2/20/2025House
TITLE AMENDED
2/20/2025Senate
PASSED; GIVEN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ROLL CALL # 10 YEAS 26 NAYS 10 EXCUSED 1 NOT VOTING 0
2/20/2025Senate
AMENDMENT(S) DEFEATED
2/20/2025Senate
PLACED ON IMMEDIATE PASSAGE
2/20/2025Senate
RULES SUSPENDED
2/20/2025Senate
PLACED ON ORDER OF THIRD READING WITH SUBSTITUTE (S-3) AS AMENDED
2/20/2025Senate
SUBSTITUTE (S-3) AS AMENDED CONCURRED IN
2/20/2025Senate
REPORTED BY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE (S-3) AND AMENDMENT(S)
2/20/2025Senate
RULES SUSPENDED FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
2/20/2025Senate
PLACED ON ORDER OF GENERAL ORDERS
2/20/2025Senate
DISCHARGE COMMITTEE APPROVED
2/20/2025Senate
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON REGULATORY AFFAIRS
2/4/2025Senate
PASSED BY HOUSE WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT
2/4/2025House

Bill Text

Public Act
2/21/2025
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As Passed by the House
2/20/2025
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As Passed by the Senate
2/20/2025
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House Concurred
2/20/2025
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Introduced
1/9/2025
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