It is already December, and 2025 is just around the corner!
Paid Family Leave
Effective January 1, 2025, an employee need not exhaust unused vacation time prior to taking paid family leave for disabilities commencing on or after January 1, 2025. The paid family leave program provides wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for certain seriously ill family members, to bond with a minor child within one year of birth or placement or to participate in a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of certain family members. Existing law authorizes an employer to require an employee to take up to two weeks of earned but unused vacation before, and as a condition of, the employee’s initial receipt of paid family leave benefits during any 12-month period in which the employee is eligible for these benefits. Effective January 1, 2025, AB 2123 would make that authorization inapplicable to any disability commencing on or after January 1, 2025.
If you have any questions, please contact Jihoon Kim at jkim@tresslerllp.com.
Jihoon Kim is an associate in Tressler’s Labor & Employment Practice Group in the Orange County office. He advises employers in management-side labor and employment litigation involving discrimination, harassment and wage and hour claims. Having also established and managed corporate human resource departments, Jihoon has drafted and reviewed personnel policies, employee handbooks and other employment-related materials and has conducted investigations and counseled employers in connection with a broad array of employee relations issues, including wage and hour, disability leave and harassment.