Beginning January 1, 2023, employees throughout California will be able to use sick leave or take leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) to care for a “designated person.” Under Assembly Bill (AB) 1041, a designated person is defined as any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is equivalent
Healthy Workplaces Healthy Family Act of 2014
9th Circuit Holds California Paid Sick Leave Does Not Apply to Rail Workers
By Susan I. Sinatra on
Posted in Disability and Leave
California’s Healthy Workplace, Healthy Family Act (the Act) requiring most employers to provide paid sick leave for covered employees went into effect in 2015. However, in 2017 and 2021, two separate California federal district courts concluded that the Act was not applicable to rail workers due to preemption by the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act…
California Enacts Paid Sick Leave Law
By Jonathan A. Siegel on
Posted in Disability and Leave, Legal Articles
With the enactment of the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (AB1522), California has become the second state in the nation, after Connecticut, to mandate employers provide their employees, including part-time and temporary workers, paid sick leave.
The Act, signed by Governor Jerry Brown on September 10, 2014, requires that employers, public…