00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 268(CRA)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to minimum paid sick leave requirements for individuals employed in                                    
02 seafood processing; and providing for an effective date."                                                               
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 23.10.066 is amended to read:                                                                      
05            Sec. 23.10.066. Minimum paid sick leave benefit. Except as provided in (b)                               
06       of this section, employers [EMPLOYERS] in the state are required to provide their                             
07       employees paid sick leave as follows:                                                                             
08                 (1)  employers with 15 or more employees shall allow employees to                                       
09       accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but                                    
10       employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 56 hours of paid sick leave per                             
11       year, unless their employer sets a higher limit;                                                                  
12 (2)  employers with fewer than 15 employees shall allow employees to                                                    
13 accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but                                          
14 employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 40 hours of paid sick leave per                                   
01       year, unless their employer sets a higher limit;                                                                  
02 (3)  employees who are exempt from overtime requirements under 29                                                       
03 U.S.C. 213(a)(1) shall be assumed to work 40 hours in each work week for purposes                                       
04 of paid sick leave accrual unless their normal work week is less than 40 hours, in                                      
05       which case paid sick leave accrues based on [UPON] that normal work week;                                     
06                 (4)  paid sick leave shall carry over to the following year, but an                                     
07       employer is not required to allow an employee to use more than the applicable                                     
08       amounts of paid sick leave described in (1) and (2) of this section per year;                                     
09                 (5)  paid sick leave as provided in this section shall begin to accrue at                               
10 the commencement of employment or July 1, 2025, whichever is later; an employee                                         
11       shall be entitled to use paid sick leave as it is accrued;                                                        
12 (6)  any employer with a paid leave or paid time off policy, who makes                                                  
13 available an amount of paid leave sufficient to meet the requirements of this section                                   
14 that may be used for the same purposes and under the same conditions as paid sick                                       
15       leave under this section, is not required to provide additional paid sick leave;                                  
16 (7)  an employee who is transferred to a separate entity or location, but                                               
17 remains employed by the same employer, is entitled to all paid sick leave accrued at                                    
18 the prior entity or location; when there is a separation from employment, but the                                       
19 employee is rehired within six months of separation by the same employer, previously                                    
20 accrued and unused paid sick leave shall be immediately reinstated; when a different                                    
21 employer succeeds or takes the place of an existing employer, all employees of the                                      
22 original employer who remain employed by the successor employer are entitled to all                                     
23       accrued and unused paid sick leave.                                                                               
24    * Sec. 2. AS 23.10.066 is amended by adding new subsections to read:                                               
25 (b)  Employers of seafood processing workers shall allow seafood processing                                             
26 workers to accrue a minimum of 12 hours of paid sick leave on the first day of each                                     
27       calendar month, but seafood processing workers are not entitled to                                                
28                 (1)  use paid sick leave for the first 30 days of employment;                                           
29                 (2)  use more than 12 hours of paid sick leave each month; or                                           
30 (3)  use or accrue more than 48 hours of paid sick leave each year,                                                     
31       unless the seafood processing worker's employer sets a higher limit.                                              
01            (c)  In this section, "seafood processing worker" means an employee who is                                   
02       hired to perform work involving heading, gutting, separating, filleting, canning, or                              
03       other activities intended to prepare seafood for market.                                                          
04    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).