More Businesses Pledge Time Off to Vote as Leave Laws Stall (1)

Businesses in a majority of states have a legal duty to give workers time off to go to the polls next month, but the momentum for expanding voting leave laws has been limited, due partly to the pandemic-led growth of early and mail-in balloting.

Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia require employers to ensure workers have time off to vote on Election Day, and all but seven of those require that it be paid. That list of state mandates is largely unchanged in recent years, with the exceptions of the unpaid voting leave requirement Connecticut enacted in 2021 and ...