Cal-Peculiarities: How California Employment Law is Different - 2024 Edition

©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP  www.seyfarth.com 2024 Cal-Peculiarities | 49 54 San Francisco Police Code section 14.3, available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/0-00-628#JD_14.3 (last visited Mar. 18, 2024). 55 Id. at section 14.4(b)(5). 56 SFPPLO FAQs (Dec. 2019), available at https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FAQ%20Dec%202019.pdf (last visited May 18, 2024). 57 San Francisco Police Code section 14.4(c), available at https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_laboremployment/00-0-628#JD_14.3 (last visited Mar. 18, 2024). 58 San Francisco Police 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. 18, 2024). 59 https://edd.ca.gov/siteassets/files/pdf_pub_ctr/de2588.pdf (last visited Mar. 18, 2024). 60 SF.gov, https://sfgov.org/olse/paid-parental-leave-ordinance (last visited Mar. 19, 2024). 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 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 AB 2992, 2020 bill amending Lab. Code §§ 230 and 230.1. 68 Lab. Code § 230(j)(3). 69 Lab. Code § 230(f)(7)(b), (C). 70 Lab. Code § 230.1. 71 Lab. Code § 230.3. 72 Lab. Code §§ 1501-1507 (unpaid leave of not less than ten days per calendar year). 73 Lab. Code § 230.4 (temporary leaves of absence not to exceed an aggregate of 14 days per calendar year). 74 Lab. Code §§ 230.3, 230.4. 75 Elec. Code § 14000 et seq. 76 Elec. Code § 14000(b). 77 Lab. Code § 230.8. 78 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A), (B). 79 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(2). 80 Lab. Code § 230.8(a)(1)(A). 81 Lab. Code § 230.8(d). 82 Lab. Code § 230.7. 83 Lab. Code § 230.8(e)(1). 84 Lab. Code § 245 et seq. 85 Lab. Code § 233. 86 Lab. Code §§ 233(a), 246.5(a). 87 See Lab. Code §§ 245.5(c)(1), (2). 88 Lab. Code § 245.5(c)(8). 89 Assembly Bill 1041. 90 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.”). 91 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). 92 McCarther v. Pac. Telesis Grp., Inc., 48 Cal. 4th 104 (2010).

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