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This law was first created in 1998. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 774<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1999, chapter 144<\/a>; in 2000, chapter 889<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1462495,"object_type":"law","relational_id":366906,"identifier":"51.1-1105","token":"51.1\/11\/2\/51.1-1105","url":"\/51.1-1105\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/51.1-1105\/","token":"51.1\/11\/2\/51.1-1105","dublin_core":{"Title":"Use of sick leave by participating employees","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 51.1-1105","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Participating employees<\/span> shall be eligible to take sick leave to account for absences due to an incident, illness, or injury for periods when disability benefits<\/span> are not payable. Participating employees<\/span> shall be compensated by their employers at 100 percent of creditable compensation for each hour of sick leave taken, not to exceed the employee’s sick leave balance.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nUSE OF SICK LEAVE BY PARTICIPATING EMPLOYEES (\u00a7 51.1-1105)\n\nParticipating employees shall be eligible to take sick leave to account for\nabsences due to an incident, illness, or injury for periods when disability\nbenefits are not payable. Participating employees shall be compensated by their\nemployers at 100 percent of creditable compensation for each hour of sick leave\ntaken, not to exceed the employee’s sick leave balance.\n\nHISTORY: 1998, c. 774; 1999, c. 144; 2000, c. 889.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}