50 | 2025 Cal-Peculiarities ©2025 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com employers with at least 20 employees anywhere. Thus, if the employer has 20 or more employees anywhere in the world, then the ordinance would apply as to any employee working in San Francisco. See Rules Implementing the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance, July 7, 2022, https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/FFWO%20Rules_Final.pdf (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 44 The amendments became effective July 12, 2022. https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o003922.pdfhttps://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Amended_Family_Friendly_Workplace_Ordinance_2022.pdf (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 45 Specifically, the notice must include the basis for the denial (i.e., how the flexible work arrangement created an undue hardship); the right to request reconsideration of the denial; the right to file a complaint with the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement; and a copy of the Flexible Work Ordinance Notice. 46 Unemp. Ins. Code § 3301. 47 SB 83, 2019 bill sunsetting older versions of Unemp. Ins. Code § 3301 and adding new versions of § 3301 (effective July 1, 2020 and Jan. 1, 2021). San Francisco’s Paid Parental Leave benefit increased to eight weeks as of July 2020. 48 SB 1090, 2024 bill amending Unemp. Ins. Code § 2655, and raising the “weekly benefit amount” for PFL, effective Jan. 1, 2025. 49 AB 2123, 2024 bill amending Unemp. Ins. Code § 3303.1. 50 Unemp. Ins. Code § 3302. 51 Unemp. Ins. Code § 3301. 52 AB 2399, 2020 bill amending Unemp. Ins. Code §§ 3302, 3307. 53 San Francisco Paid Parental Leave Ordinance (“SFPPLO”), https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-0-0-596 (last visited Mar. 15, 2025); see SFPPLO FAQs (Jan. 2025), available at https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/PPLO%20FAQ%20Jan%202025.pdf (last visited Nov. 4, 2025); Unemp. Ins. Code § 3301. 54 San Francisco Labor and Employment Code section 14.4(c), available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-0-0-628#JD_14.3 (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 55 Id. at section 14.4(b)(5). 56 SFPPLO FAQs (Jan. 2025), available at https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/PPLO%20FAQ%20Jan%202025.pdf (last visited Nov. 4, 2025). 57 San Francisco Labor and Employment Code section 14.4(c), available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-0-0-628#JD_14.3 (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 58 San Francisco Labor and Employment Code section 14.4(b)(2), available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-0-0-628#JD_14.3 (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 59 https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/pdf_pub_ctr/de2588.pdf (last visited Mar. 15, 2025). 60 San Francisco Labor and Employment Code section 14.4(b)(2), available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-0-0-639 (last visited Nov. 4, 2025), annual calculator can be found at https://www.sf.gov/information--san-francisco-paid-parental-leave-calculator (last visited Nov. 4, 2025). 61 Lab. Code §§ 1025, 1041. Under section 1025, employers need not provide rehabilitation where (i) rehabilitation would cause undue hardship for the employer, or (ii) the employer is denying employment because (a) the employee cannot perform duties because of the current use of alcohol or drugs, or (b) the employee cannot perform duties without endangering the health or safety of the employee or others. Under section 1041, employers need not provide an accommodation to an employee who reveals a problem of illiteracy if doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer. 62 Lab. Code § 1026. 63 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(a)(1), Lab. Code §§ 230, 230.2. 64 Lab. Code § 230.5(a)(1), (b)(1). The specified offenses, listed in section 230.5(a)(2), include vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony child abuse likely to produce great bodily harm or death, assault resulting in the death of a child under eight years of age, felony domestic violence, felony physical abuse of an elder or dependent adult, felony stalking, solicitation for murder, “serious felony,” hit-andrun causing death or injury, felony driving under the influence causing injury, and sexual assault. 65 Lab. Code § 230.5(b)(2). 66 Lab. Code § 230.5(f). 67 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(k). The prior form developed by the Labor Commissioner under Lab. Code §§ 230 and 230.1 can be found online in both English and Spanish at https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlse-publications.htm (last visited Mar. 10, 2025). The Civil Rights Department is required to develop a new form by July 1, 2025. 68 AB 2499, 2024 bill repealing Lab. Code §§ 230 and 230.1 and adding Gov’t Code § 12945.8. 69 Gov’t Code §12945.8(c)(1). 70 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(c)(2). 71 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(c)(3). 72 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(g). 73 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(1). 74 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(2)
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