Beginning February 22, 2026, amendments to New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act go into effect expanding employee rights and increasing employers’ safe and sick time compliance obligations. Among other things, employers will be required to frontload 32 hours of unpaid safe and sick time to covered employees immediately upon hire and at the start of each calendar year. The amendments also broaden the qualifying reasons for using safe and sick time. Read more about these important changes from our New York colleagues here.