Navigating Leave Entitlements and Protections Under CFRA
By: Leiann Laiks, Esq.
In California, the CFRA ensures certain protections for employees, offering 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave each year under specific conditions:
- Employer Requirements: Employers with five or more employees must offer CFRA to eligible employees.
- Employee Eligibility: Employees must have worked for the employer for at least 12 months and logged a minimum of 1,250 hours in the past year.
- Qualifying Reasons: Leave may be granted for qualifying reasons such as:
- Birth of a child for purposes of bonding (including the child of a domestic partner).
- Placement of a child in the employee’s family for adoption or foster care.
- To care for the employee’s child (including adult children and children of a domestic partner), parent, parent-in-law, spouse, registered domestic partner, sibling, grandparent, grandchild or designated person with a serious health condition.
- The serious health condition of the employee (excluding pregnancy).
·A qualifying military 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 United States Armed Forces, as specified in Section 3302.2 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
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