©2025 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com 2025 Cal-Peculiarities | 51 75 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(7)(A). 76 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(7)(B). 77 Gov’t Code § 12945.8. 78 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(7)(D). 79 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(e)(8). 80 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(j)(4). 81 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(b). 82 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(h), (i). 83 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(i)(1). 84 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(i)(3). 85 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(i)(2). 86 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(c)(1)-(2). 87 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(c)(2). 88 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(c)(3). 89 Gov’t Code § 12945.8(g). 90 Lab. Code § 230.3. 91 Lab. Code § 230.4 (temporary leaves of absence not to exceed an aggregate of 14 days per calendar year). 92 Lab. Code §§ 230.3, 230.4. 93 Lab. Code §§ 1501-1507. 94 Lab. Code §§ 1503(b). 95 Lab. Code §§ 1503(c), 1504. 96 Elec. Code § 14000 et seq. 97 Elec. Code § 14000(b). 98 Lab. Code § 230.7. 99 Lab. Code § 230.8. 100 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A), (B). 101 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(2). 102 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A). 103 Lab. Code § 230.8(d). 104 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(1). 105 Lab. Code § 245 et seq. 106 Lab. Code § 233. 107 Lab. Code §§ 233(a), 246.5(a). 108 See Lab. Code §§ 245.5(c)(1), (2). 109 Lab. Code § 245.5(c)(8). 110 Assembly Bill 1041, codified as Gov’t Code Section 12945.2. 111 Lab. Code § 233 (effective Jan. 1, 2021) (“Any employer who provides sick leave for employees shall permit an employee to use in any calendar year the employee’s accrued and available sick leave entitlement, in an amount not less than the sick leave that would be accrued during six months at the employee’s then current rate of entitlement, for the reasons specified in subdivision (a) of Section 246.5. The designation of sick leave taken for these reasons shall be made at the sole discretion of the employee.”). 112 DLSE Opinion Letter 2003.05.21, at 6 (PTO that employer implicitly permits to be used for sick leave constitutes sick leave for purposes of kin care). 113 McCarther v. Pac. Telesis Grp., Inc., 48 Cal. 4th 104 (2010). 114 Lab. Code § 234. Similarly, the San Francisco Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance, effective in 2014, prohibits retaliation for requesting time off to care for a family member, even if the employee has no sick time available. (See § 2.14.) 115 Lab. Code § 233. 116 Lab. Code § 233(a), 234. By one reading of the poorly drafted statutory language, the anti-retaliation provisions of the “kin care” statute, section 233, protect from retaliation the employee’s use of sick time for the employee’s own needs. That is because section 233 forbids retaliation against an employee for using or attempting to use sick leave “to attend to an illness or the preventive care of a family member, or for any other reasons specified in subdivision (a) of Section 246.5.” (Emphasis added.) Section 246.5(a)(1), meanwhile, addresses the diagnosis, care, preventive care, or treatment of an existing health condition for “an employee or an employee’s family member.” (Emphasis added.)
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