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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="3-1306" title_number="3" title_name="Employment Standards and Conditions" subtitle_number="13" subtitle_name="Healthy Working Families Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An employer shall notify the employer’s employees that the employees are entitled to earned sick and safe leave under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The notice provided under subsection (a) of this section shall include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a statement of how earned sick and safe leave is accrued under § 3–1304 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the purposes for which the employer is required to allow an employee to use earned sick and safe leave under § 3–1305 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a statement regarding the prohibition:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>in § 3–1309 of this subtitle against the employer taking adverse action against an employee who exercises a right under this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>in § 3–1310 of this subtitle against an employee making a complaint, bringing an action, or testifying in an action in bad faith; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>information regarding the right of an employee to report an alleged violation of this subtitle by the employer to the Commissioner or to bring a civil action under § 3–1308(c) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>create and make available a poster and a model notice at no charge to the employer that may be used by an employer to comply with subsection (a) of this section;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>develop a model sick and safe leave policy that an employer may use as a sick and safe leave policy in an employee handbook or other written guidance to employees concerning employee benefits or leave provided by the employer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>provide technical assistance to an employer, if an employer requests assistance regarding implementing the provisions of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall post the notice and model sick and safe leave policy created and developed under subsection (c)(1) and (2) of this section on the Department’s website in a downloadable format.</text>
  </level>
</section>
