Under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), employers with five or more employees must give their eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected time off annually to care for the employee’s own serious illness or that of their children, parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, spouses, and registered domestic partners. Under the state’s paid sick leave law, employers must provide eligible employees with at least 24 hours or three days of paid sick leave to care for themselves or the same family members.
Effective Jan. 1, employers also will have to allow their employees to use unpaid family leave or paid sick leave to care for a “designated person” beyond those on the existing list. Here’s what you need to know
Designated person may not be just anyone
The new law defines “designated person” as an individual related by blood not on the existing list, such as a cousin or uncle, or someone “whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.”
In authoring the measure, Bay Area Assembly member Buffy Wicks observed “the overwhelming majority of households today depart from the ‘nuclear family’ model of a married couple and their biological children — instead they increasingly include close loved ones who aren’t biologically or legally related.” The policy reflected in existing law, she argued, is “outdated” and “disproportionately affects California’s LGBTQI community” who are “less likely to have biological...
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