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Employment: Requires Large Employers to Provide Employees Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
Eective September 9, 2020
Large employers that employ 500 or more employees must provide Supplemental Paid Sick Leave to employees aected by COVID-19.
Requires a large employers to provide 80 hours of SPSL if the worker is either considered as full time, or worked or was scheduled to work on average at least 40 hours per week in the two weeks preceding the date that the worker took SPSL when a worker is unable to work because the worker is: a) Subject to a federal, state, or local quarantine or isolation order related to COVID-19, or b) Advised by a health care provider to self- quarantine or self-isolate due to concerns related to COVID-19, or c) Prohibited from working by hiring entity due to health concerns related to the potential transmission of COVID-19.
Assembly Bill 1867 is codied as Government Code Section 12945.21, Health and Safety Code Section 248.5 and Labor Code Sections 248 and 248.1. Eective September 9, 2020.
Employment: Sick Leave
The designation of the sick leave taken is at the sole discretion of the employee.
Existing law requires an employer who provides sick leave for employees to permit an employee to use the employee’s accrued and available sick leave entitlement to attend to the illness of a family member and prohibits an employer from denying an employee the right to use sick leave or taking specic discriminatory action against an employee for using, or attempting to exercise the right to use, sick leave to attend to such an illness.
This new law provides that the designation of the sick leave taken under these provisions is at the sole discretion of the employee.
Assembly Bill 1984 is codied as Labor Code Section 233. Eective January 1, 2021.
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