City to Flag Firms with Low Paid Time Off Use Under Mamdani Plan

New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will start payroll-based compliance checks to identify employers with low paid time off usage, using a 50% threshold of workers who used any paid time off in the past year as a potential signal of systemic violations under the revamped Paid Time Off law (which guarantees at least 40 hours paid leave plus 32 hours unpaid annually); a self-audit tool and penalties for noncompliance are part of the rollout.