Get EXTRA Time Off to Take your Kids to Get the Vaccine
If you are a working parent or legal guardian of kids aged 5-18 or older, you get NYC Dedicated Sick Leave for Child Vaccination!
NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) recently expanded its NYC Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law to provide workers with ADDITIONAL leave to use to get their kids vaccinated against COVID-19. Workers get 4 additional hours of sick leave for:
- EACH child; AND
- EACH vaccine injection.
Dedicated sick leave for child vaccinations is in addition to accrued leave under State or City Paid Sick Leave laws.
Effective dates of dedicated sick leave for child vaccination are 11/2/2021 through 12/31/2022. Workers can ask their employers to credit their sick leave balance if they took their child to get the vaccine before the new law went into effect on 12/24/2021.
To learn more about sick leave, including special leave for the COVID-19 vaccine, or to file a workplace complaint, visit nyc.gov/workers.
Reminder: Employer retaliation is illegal and DCWP treats all information received as confidential. Employers CANNOT retaliate against workers for requesting or using safe and sick leave. To learn more about the Law or to file a complaint, visit nyc.gov/workers. You can remain anonymous. You have rights regardless of immigration status.