Wireless communications systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a first user equipment (UE) may include transmitting, to a network unit, an indication associated with channel occupancy time (COT) sharing on sidelink communication, receiving, from the network unit, a COT indicator, wherein the COT indicator indicates to the first UE to initiate a COT on sidelink communication based on the indication associated with the COT sharing or the COT indicator indicates to the first UE to share the COT on sidelink communication based on the indication associated with the COT sharing on sidelink communication, and transmitting, to a second UE, a communication during the COT on sidelink communication.