CA SB95

Employers with more than 25 employees must provide covered employees 80 hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave if they work full-time or averaged at least 40 hours per week in the preceding 2 weeks, with adjusted amounts for firefighters and variable-hour workers.

Covered employees may use supplemental paid sick leave for reasons including COVID-19 quarantine orders, health provider advice to self-quarantine, vaccine appointments and side effects, COVID-19 symptoms, and caring for family members or children affected by COVID-19 closures.

Employers must compensate supplemental paid sick leave at the highest of the employee's regular rate, state minimum wage, or local minimum wage, up to $511 per day and $5,110 total unless federal law increases these limits.

In-home supportive service providers and personal waiver care service providers are entitled to up to 80 hours of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave under similar conditions, with compensation at their regular rate of pay.

Requirements take effect 10 days after enactment with retroactive application to January 1, 2021, and expire September 30, 2021; $100,000 appropriated to the Labor Commissioner for implementation and enforcement.