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Employment: Family Medical Leave Expansion
Expands the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) to allow employees to use unpaid job protected leave to care for a domestic partner, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or parent-in-law who has a serious health condition.
This law expands the California Family Rights Act to make it an unlawful employment practice for any employer with 5 or more employees to refuse to grant a request by an employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12- month period to bond with a new child of the employee or to care for themselves or a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or domestic partner, as specied. It requires an employer who employs both parents of a child to grant leave to each employee. It is an unlawful employment practice for any employer to refuse to grant a request by an employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period due to a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of an employee’s spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. The It denes employee for these purposes as an individual who has at least 1,250 hours of service with the employer during the previous 12-month period, unless otherwise provided.
Senate Bill 1383 is codied as Government Code Section 12945.2. Eective January 1, 2021.
Employment: Noti􏰀cation of Employees of COVID-19 Exposure
Requires an employer to notify all employees that they may have been exposed to COVID-19 if they were on the premises of the worksite within the infectious period as a person who had COVID-19. The notice must describe information regarding COVID-19 related bene􏰀ts to which the employee may be entitled.
On June 16, 2020, CDPH issued guidance to local health departments (LHD), which included a checklist for LHDs assisting workplaces experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19. The guidance recommended that an employer "notify all employees who were potentially exposed to individuals with COVID-19."This new law provides clearer guidelines.
It explains who would qualify as a person aected by COVID-19.
A "Qualifying individual” means any person who has any of the following:
(A)A laboratory-conrmed case of COVID-19, as dened by the State Department of Public Health.
(B)A positive COVID-19 diagnosis from a licensed health care provider.
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