AB 116

Under current law, an employer, including the state, employing at least 50

individuals on a permanent basis in this state must permit an employee who has

been employed by the employer for more than 52 consecutive weeks and who has

worked for the employer for at least 1,000 hours during the preceding 52-week

period to take six weeks of family leave in a 12-month period and two weeks of

medical leave in a 12-month period. Family leave may be taken for the birth or

adoptive placement of a new child or to care for a child, spouse, or parent who has

a serious health condition. Medical leave may be taken when the employee has a

serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the employee's

employment duties. An employee is not entitled to receive wages or salary while

taking family or medical leave, but may substitute, for portions of family or medical

leave, other types of paid or unpaid leave provided by the employer. An employee who

intends to take family or medical leave for the birth or adoptive placement of a child

or for planned medical treatment must give the employer advance notice of the birth

or adoptive placement or planned medical treatment. In addition, for planned

medical treatment, the employee must make a reasonable effort to schedule the

medical treatment so that it does not unduly disrupt the operations of the employer.

This bill allows

any

employee of an employer, including the state, employing at

least 50 individuals on a permanent basis in this state to take no more than 16 hours

of school conference and activities leave in a 12-month period. School conference and

activities leave may be taken to attend school conferences or classroom activities

relating to the employee's child that cannot be scheduled during nonworking hours.

In addition, school conference and activities leave may be taken to observe and

monitor the day care, preschool, or prekindergarten services or programming

received by an employee's child, if that observation and monitoring cannot be

scheduled during nonworking hours. An employee is not entitled to receive wages

or salary while taking school conference and activities leave, but may substitute, for

portions of school conference and activities leave, other types of paid or unpaid leave

provided by the employer, except that an employee may not substitute paid leave for

school conference and activities leave for attending a school conference or activity for

less than one hour. An employee who intends to take leave to attend a school

conference or activity must give the employer advance notice of the conference or

activity and must make a reasonable effort to schedule the conference or activity so

that it does not unduly disrupt the operations of the employer.

For purposes of this bill, "school" means a day care center licensed by the

Department of Children and Families Services, a day care provider certified for

funding by a county department of human services or social services, a day care

program established or contracted for by a school board, a public or private preschool