Maryland employment laws

Maryland employers must pay a separated employee all wages on or before the day they would normally have been paid — and must pay out accrued leave unless a written, noticed policy limits it.

Maryland's Healthy Working Families Act requires earned sick and safe leave — one hour per 30 hours worked — paid at employers with 15 or more employees and unpaid below, with a 40-hour annual earn cap and 64-hour use/balance caps.

Maryland requires accrued leave to be paid at separation by default — an employer escapes payout only with a written policy limiting it that was communicated to the employee at hiring.