Articles Discussing California Family Leave and Family Leave Act.

On September 29, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 2123, eliminating employer’s ability to require employees to use accrued vacation leave before accessing California’s Paid Family Leave Program (PFL).

PFL is a state-run program providing benefits to individuals taking time off to care for a seriously ill child, spouse,

On November 15, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (Pacific Time), CDF Partners Mark S. Spring and Alison Tsao will be presenting our annual complimentary “Year in Review” webinar that will cover 2022’s new laws, key judicial decisions, and developments affecting California employers in 2023 and beyond.

With the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic now largely in the rear-view mirror, the most recent California legislation focuses on aggressively expanding employee rights in other areas. This webinar will cover the court decisions and recent legislation passed that will require California employers to take action as they prepare for 2023.

Topics will include:

-New mandatory bereavement leave requirements
-Expanded family leave that will allow California employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave to care for individuals who are not family members
-Another raise to the state minimum wage and corresponding salary tests for exempt status qualification
-New requirements that require California to provide job applicants and current employees additional information on pay ranges
-New obligations that mandate that California employers provide detailed pay data to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing
-Recent developments regarding the use of mandatory arbitration in California
-Other important legal changes that California employers need to be aware of to ensure compliance in 2023

During this comprehensive webinar, Mark and Alison will review these developments and provide compliance guidance to assist employers as they prepare for 2023.

Register today to reserve your spot for one of our most popular webinars.

In its current iteration, the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) requires California public employers and private employers with 5 or more employees to provide qualified employees with up to a total of 12 workweeks of leave in a designated 12-month period for family care and medical leave.

After vetoing a similar bill last year, on September 30, 2022, California Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 951, which increases wage replacement rates for lower wage earners under the state Paid Family Leave program (PFL) and State Disability Insurance (SDI) programs.

Starting in 2025, workers who earn 70 percent

Beginning in June 2022, California businesses with between 1 and 100 employees may qualify to receive grants of up to $2,000 for each employee who is off work for a reason covered by California’s Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) program. The intent of the PFL Small Business Grant program is to help small businesses offset some of the expenses they incur while complying with their PFL obligations.

California’s Paid Family Leave (PFL) program, which is administered by the Employment Development Department (EDD) provides eligible employees with up to 8 weeks of wage replacement benefits when an employee is off work for certain qualifying reasons.

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In April 2022, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (“DFEH”) provided insight about its new pilot mediation program for certain claims under the California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”).  The program is a significant benefit to “small employers” subject to the CFRA.

In this episode, Jen provides tips for employers struggling to comply with various leave of absence laws, including the FMLA/CFRA, California’s Pregnancy Disability Leave law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act.

The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has released the Voluntary Plan Employee Contribution and Benefit Rates for 2022.

Employers with employees located in California are generally required to withhold and send state disability contributions to the EDD. The 2022 rates are as follows:

“Employee Contribution Rate” 1.10% “Taxable Wage Ceiling” (per

At the start of 2021, California’s family and medical leave law, the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), expanded its coverage to apply to smaller employers—from employers with 50 or more employees to those with just 5 or more employees.  More recently, during the 2021 legislative session, California’s governor signed legislation

The new year brought several important changes to the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). One key change that employers should be aware of is the expansion of the scope of individuals who qualify as “family members” under the law.

The CFRA allows eligible employees to take up to twelve weeks

With the recent expansion of the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), employers who previously were not covered under CFRA now find themselves having to navigate the murky waters of the law.  From the basics such as who exactly is eligible for CFRA leave to the more complicated issues dealing with how CFRA

By: California Expands Its Family and Medical Leave Law

Late last week, Governor Newsom signed SB 1383 into law, greatly expanding coverage of the California Family Rights Act (CFRA).   SB 1383 expands the scope of employers who are covered by CFRA to now include small employers with as few as five

Two California cities, San Francisco and San Jose adopted emergency ordinances to expand paid sick leave and emergency Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave benefits.  The ordinances cover gaps under federal law by expanding leave benefits under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to employers with more than 500

School children are back at school following winter break, and that may mean employee requests for time off for parent-teacher conferences, school assemblies, and more. While less known, California law has a collection of statutes affording parents protected time off. One of those protections is California Labor Code section 230.8, which provides parents, and other parental figures, with protected time off to attend to child related activities.