The Unemployment Insurance Code provides for the Paid Family Leave (PFL) program for the provision of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work in order to provide 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. An employer is allowed to require an employee to take up to two (2) weeks of earned, but unused, vacation before, and as a condition of, the employee’s initial receipt of these benefits during any 12-month period in which the employee is eligible for these benefits.
Assembly Bill 2123 (AB 2123) eliminates the ability for an employer to require an employee to take up to two (2) weeks of earned, but unused, vacation before, and as a condition of, the employee’s initial receipt of these benefits, by making these provisions inapplicable to any disability commencing on or after January 1, 2025.
(AB 2123 amends section 3303.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.)