California employers, both public and private, are required to provide paid sick leave to their employees, unless exempted by law.
See the section on Paid Sick Leave, below, for details.
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Each year, employees are entitled to use the amount of sick leave they would earn in 6 months for this purpose.
This law does not extend the maximum period of leave to which the employee is entitled under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) or the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) (CA Lab. Code Sec. 233).
Employers that have absence control policies that count sick leave taken for this purpose as an absence that may lead to or result in disciplinary action are in violation of the law (CA Lab. Code Sec. 233, Sec. 234).
