CA AB2536

Prohibits employers from discharging or discriminating against employees who take time off to perform emergency duty as volunteer firefighters, reserve peace officers, or emergency rescue personnel.

Requires health care providers to notify their employer when they become designated as emergency rescue personnel and when they are notified of deployment as a result of that designation.

Expands the definition of "emergency rescue personnel" to include officers, employees, or members of disaster medical response entities sponsored or requested by the state.

Exempts public safety agencies and emergency medical services providers from these protections if the employee's absence would hinder public safety or emergency medical services, as determined by the employer.

Specifies that no state reimbursement is required for local agencies or school districts under this act because it only changes the definition of an existing crime.