Sage 100

State mandated Paid Sick Leave - This past September Michigan's legislature passed a ""Paid Sick Leave"" law requiring employers to accrue one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked. Last week the accrued rate was changed to one hour for every 40 hours worked. Other states that have similar laws include Arizona, Connecticut, Mass, Vermont, Oregon and a few others. I assume the Benefit Accrual feature in SAGE Payroll module can be used to handle this new law. Is there anything I'm not considering before I begin discussions with my SAGE payroll clients?

I have customers accruing 1 hour per 30 and it works. I assume that 1 hour per 40 is a simple change to the accrual rate in the table.

The only thing that we've had issues with is the limit. In Oregon an employer can choose to accrue up to 69 hours (our accrual rate is 1 hour per 30 hours worked, and yes, the tables do work!), but an employer can limit the amount of Sick time an employee can take per year to 40 hours. An employer can also ""carry over"" up to 40 hours as well. Some of our employers do indeed want to continue to accrue, after the first 40 hours have been reached, but they want to make sure that an employee doesn't take more than 40 hours in a given year. We can limit the employee to 40 hours, but then the accrual stops. Or we can make the limit be 69 hours (or even 80 hours, which is the amount the State has determined is the maximum amount of Sick Leave that can be accrued) but if we do that, then the system doesn't warn us that the sick time for the year has been used already. Why would an employer want to continue to accrue if they've set the rule that an employee can only take 40 hours per year? Because in the first quarter of the year, if the employee is sick and wants to take sick time, and he used all of his sick time last year, he wouldn't have hours in his sick time bank...hence our issue. If we put the 40 hours max in, then the accrual stops. If we put in the 69 hours (2080 / 30) then the system doesn't ""warn"" us that they've already used their 40 hours for the year.

MN has done this in 1 city and my question that nobody can answer is: 1 per 40 hours worked accumulative? So if 42 hours this week, 38 next week, get 2 hours sick as 80 hours accumulatively? Or just 1 hour this week, 0 hours next week?