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Healthy Families and Healthy Workplaces Act ensures all workers have earned paid sick days for their own health needs and family health needs.

The Healthy Families and Healthy Workplaces Act mandates that all workers in North Carolina have earned paid sick days to address their own health needs and those of their immediate family members. Employers must provide paid sick time for reasons such as caring for a family member with a physical or mental illness, injury, or medical condition, or for the employee's own health needs. The act also protects employees from retaliation for using paid sick time and requires employers to reinstate any accrued paid sick time for rehired employees.