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On July 1, 2022, New Mexico’s Healthy Workplaces Act took effect. The primary purpose of the Act is to create a requirement for providing paid sick leave in New Mexico.

The Act requires providing proper notice to employees. New workplace posters are required, and the State has issued sample posters in English and Spanish.

Employees must also be given written or electronic notice of the following:

• the employee’s right to earned sick leave;

• the manner in which sick leave is accrued and calculated;

• the terms of use of earned sick leave as guaranteed by the Healthy Workplaces Act;

• that retaliation against employees for using sick leave is prohibited;

• the employee’s right to file a complaint with the division if earned sick leave accrual or use is denied or if the employee is retaliated against; and

• all means of enforcing the Healthy Workplaces Act.

The notice must be in “English, Spanish, or any other language that is the first language spoken by at least ten percent of the employer’s workforce, as requested by the employee,” according to the Act.

The State has not provided sample notices, but Employers Council has compliant notices in English and Spanish in our whitepaper NM Leave Laws. If you have any questions, please email the Member Experience team.