NEW EMPLOYER REQUIREMENTS UNDER PAID FAMILY LEAVE

Payroll deductions for Paid Family Leave will start in California on January 1, 2004.  As an employer, you should start preparing to make the deduction from employees payroll checks.  This mandatory program is fully funded from employee wages.

Employers must also provide employees with a copy of “Paid Family Leave” (D.E. 2511), a form provided by the Employment Development Department, to each newly hired employee as of January 1, 2004, and to each employee leaving work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child beginning July 1, 2004.  Please contact Tredway, Lumsdaine & Doyle for copies of this form.

Under the law, employees who work for employers with more than fifty employees may receive up to six weeks of benefits for leave associated with care for family members.  This new benefit starts on July 1, 2004.  However, as the law is now written, all employees, no matter the size of the company, must pay into the fund.

For more information, contact the attorneys at Tredway, Lumsdaine & Doyle or visit www.edd.ca.gov