{"id":343,"date":"2013-11-18T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacksonwhitelaw.com\/az-small-business-representation\/?p=343"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:11:59","slug":"are-small-business-owners-in-arizona-required-to-offer-leave-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonwhitelaw.com\/az-small-business-representation\/blog\/are-small-business-owners-in-arizona-required-to-offer-leave-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Small Business Owners in Arizona Required to Offer Leave Benefits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question is no.\u00a0 Federal Law does not require you to offer traditional leave benefits, which include paid holiday\/sick time, personal leave, jury duty, or bereavement\/funeral leave, to your employees.\u00a0 Although some states, such as California, Washington, and the District of Columbia have adopted laws that do provide for these circumstances, Arizona does not require such things at this time.<\/p>\n<p>With that being said, it is important to consider that a small business owner who offers leave benefits will likely be a more attractive employer to an employee on the job hunt. Seeing as though most Arizona businesses do offer paid leave, it might be wise to consider implementing such benefits in order to keep employee morale high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Must Offer the Same Benefits to All Employees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you do decide to adopt a policy that offers leave benefits, such as sick or vacation time, you must apply your policies consistently to all employees.\u00a0 Not offering them to everyone opens up doors for discrimination claims.<\/p>\n<p>The same rule applies for pregnancy and maternity leave.\u00a0 If your business offers sick and vacation time, you must also allow pregnant women and women who have just given birth to make use of these policies.\u00a0 If a new mother is unable to work following the birth of her child, she must be allowed to use the paid disability leave if such a leave is available to other employees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Call JacksonWhite&#8217;s Small Business Law Team at <a href=\"tel:4804641111\">(480) 464-1111<\/a> to discuss your case today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer to that question is no.\u00a0 Federal Law does not require you to offer traditional leave benefits, which include paid holiday\/sick time, personal leave, jury duty, or bereavement\/funeral leave, to your employees.\u00a0 Although some states, such as California, Washington, and the District of Columbia have adopted laws that do provide for these circumstances, Arizona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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