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Leavebook Chicago Paid Leave Ledger
For Chicago clubs and venues

Two kinds of leave, every worker different.

Leavebook works out who is covered, what each person has earned of Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave, when they may use it, and what is owed when they leave - and refuses leave or a last day that would break the ordinance.

Opens in this browser with an invented club already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. Never holds the reason for a sick day, a medical note or a Social Security number.

The problem

Part-timers, fill-ins and dancers all count.

Anyone who works 80 hours in 120 days in Chicago earns an hour of each kind of leave per 35 worked. Sick leave from day 30, Paid Leave from day 90, carryover, and a payout when someone leaves. Every person's numbers are different.

1 per 35

an hour of Paid Leave and an hour of Paid Sick Leave for every 35 worked.

National Law Review →
80 in 120

hours in any 120 days in Chicago and a worker is covered.

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$3,000

the top fine per violation - and workers can sue for three times the damages.

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Will not let leave go wrong.

Not a reminder. Leave is refused for someone not covered, before day 30 or 90, or past the balance. A last day is refused at a business with more than 50 covered employees until the unused Paid Leave is paid out. Nothing is deleted. There is no override.

How it works

Hours, balances, leaving

Enter the week

Hours worked in Chicago, per person.

Read the balances

Paid Leave and sick leave, worked out with carryover.

Record leave and leaving

Days taken, and the payout on the last day.

What it will never do

It keeps the hours. Never the reasons.

Leavebook holds hours and dates, nothing more.

No reasons for sick days.Paid Leave needs no reason at all.
No medical notes.Nothing is uploaded.
No Social Security numbers.Payroll already has them.
It is not legal advice.The ordinance's own text is the reference.

Pricing

One plan

For one venue.

Every worker

Venue

$15/mo

Every hour, both kinds of leave.

  • Coverage worked out
  • Both balances with carryover
  • 30- and 90-day waits
  • Payout on leaving

Monthly, per venue. Your bank statement says Leavebook Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.

Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Does a six-hour-a-week dancer count?

Once they reach 80 hours in any 120 days in Chicago, yes. Leavebook works it out from the weeks you enter.

We frontload. Does it handle that?

Yes. Tick frontload and each worker gets 40 of each at the start of the year; Paid Leave then does not carry over.

Do we pay out sick leave?

No. Only unused Paid Leave, and only at a business with more than 50 covered employees.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the record and the gates.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before the next last shift

An invented club's door host is leaving with Paid Leave owed - and Leavebook will not record the last day until it is paid.