You don’t know you need HR, until you NEED HR.

It’s 2025 and you are a small business owner with 10 employees, a combination of full- and part-time employees. You do not have a sick pay policy; your employees either take their sick time unpaid or use whatever time off they have accrued. This has been working great for you, your employees, and your business. You had heard that effective 1/1/2025, there was a revision to the CT Paid Sick Leave Law, but since you had less than 25 employees, you did not pay too much attention to it.

Now it’s 2026 and effective 1/1/2026, the revised law mandates private sector employers, with at least 11 employees to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave. Again, you are not too worried about it because you have 10 employees…BUT what you may not be aware of is that you WILL need a Paid Sick Leave Policy established prior to 1/1/2027.

Effective 1/1/2027, a private sector business with any employees (minimum of 1), must provide paid sick leave for their employees.

WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?

• You have read the law but do not know how to write a policy for your business.

• This law means you now have to pay 40 hours of paid sick time to your 10 employees, and this adds an additional cost that impacts your business’s bottom line.

REACH OUT TO TRUE NORTH HR CONSULTING, AND I CAN ASSIST YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS.