AB 1017

Under this bill, if an employer requires an employee to isolate at home due to

a concern that the employee may have been exposed to or infected with COVID-19

while working (medical isolation) and the employee receives a negative test for

COVID-19 in the first seven days of the medical isolation, the employer may not

require the employee to use paid leave for those seven days. The bill also requires

the employer to pay the employee at his or her regular rate of pay for those seven

days. The bill does not require an employer that does not otherwise offer paid sick

leave to provide paid sick leave benefits beyond what is required under the bill for

employer-mandated medical isolation.