Industry News
Updates to California Sick Pay and PTO in 2025
Author, Jadyn Brandt, Client Communications Coordinator, Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc.
Beginning on January 1, 2025, changes to California paid sick leave and paid family leave took effect in California. To ensure your business is in compliance with these new requirements, update your paid sick leave policy to include these new uses. Employers should also update family leave policies to remove any requirement that employees must use accrued vacation time before receiving PFL benefits on or after January 1.
California Increases Paid Sick Leave for 2024
Author, Megan Lockhart, Client Communications Coordinator, Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc.
The state of California will officially change the paid sick leave (PSL) law for businesses in 2024. Effective January 1, 2024, the amount of PSL employees can take will increase from 24 hours to 40 hours per year.
California Prepares to Restore COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave
Author, Kevin Howard, Account Executive, Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc.
On January 25, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he had made a deal with legislative leaders on a framework that would provide up to two weeks of supplemental paid sick leave to those who are unable to work due to COVID-19, quarantining or experiencing side effects from the vaccine. As of February 7, 2022, the California legislature passed the bill and we are waiting for the governor to sign it into law.
FFCRA Requiring Mandatory Display of Notice
Author, Lauren Stumpf, Media Communications Coordinator, Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) is requiring all employers with fewer than 500 employees, to post the Employee Rights - Paid Sick Leave and Expanded Family and Medical Leave Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act notice in a conspicuous place on their premises. An employer may satisfy this requirement by emailing or direct mailing this notice to employees and new hires or posting it on the employer’s website (“an employee information internal or external website”).