©2023 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com 2023 Cal-Peculiarities | 51 71 Lab. Code § 230(j)(3). 72 Lab. Code § 230(f). 73 Lab. Code § 230.1. 74 Lab. Code § 230.3. 75 Lab. Code §§ 1501-1507 (unpaid leave of not less than ten days per calendar year). 76 Lab. Code § 230.4 (temporary leaves of absence not to exceed an aggregate of 14 days per calendar year). 77 Lab. Code §§ 230.3, 230.4. 78 Election Code § 14000 et seq. 79 Election Code § 14000(b). 80 Lab. Code § 230.8. 81 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A), (B). 82 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(2). 83 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A). 84 Lab. Code § 230.8(d). 85 Lab. Code § 230.7. 86 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(1). 87 Lab. Code § 245 et seq. 88 Lab. Code § 233. 89 See Lab. Code §§ 245.5(b), 246.5(a). 90 Assembly Bill 1041. 91 Lab. Code § 233 (eff. 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.”). 92 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). 93 McCarther v. Pac. Telesis Grp., Inc., 48 Cal. 4th 104 (2010). 94 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. 95 Lab. Code § 233. 96 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.) 97 Airline Pilots Ass’n Int’l v. United Airlines, Inc., 223 Cal. App. 4th 706 (2014) (because trusts in question were not “bona fide separate trusts,” ERISA preemption did not apply). 98 Military & Veterans Code § 394.5 et seq. 99 20 C.F.R. § 1002.5(d)(1)(i) and DOL comments in preamble to same. See also 38 U.S.C. § 4303(4)(A)(i). 100 Haligowski v. Superior Court (Pantuso), 200 Cal. App. 4th 983 (2011). 101 https://sf.gov/information/understanding-military-leave-pay-protection-act (visited Apr. 26, 2023). 102 San Francisco Police Code §§ 3300Q.3 through 3300Q.8, https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_police/0-0-052702 (visited Apr. 26, 2023). 103 Id.; San Francisco Private Sector Military Leave Pay Protection Act Implementation Guidance Pub. Feb. 16, 2023, chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/MLPPA%20FAQ_Final_2.16.23_0.pdf (visited Apr. 26, 2023). 104 San Francisco Police Code § 3300Q.6. 105 San Francisco Police Code § 3300Q.4. 106 Id. 107 Id. 108 San Francisco Police Code § 3300Q.5(b)(2). 109 San Francisco Police Code § 3300Q.5(c).
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