The California Paid Family Leave (CA PFL) is a state benefits program that provides eligible employees with up to 60 to 70 percent (depending on income)of their average weekly wages for up to 6 weeks to care for a seriously ill family member (child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or registered domestic partner) or bond with a newborn, newly adopted or foster child. This leave will expand from six to eight weeks, effective July 1, 2020.

This leave is also provided for an employee’s participation in covered active duty, or the call to covered active duty of an employee’s spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the armed forces. “Covered active duty” is defined as (with respect to a member of the U.S. Armed Forces) duty during the deployment of the member with the regular armed forces to a foreign country, and with respect to a member of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, duty during the deployment of the member of the reserve to a foreign country under a federal call or order to active duty. Find more information on this benefit program here: http://www.edd.ca.gov/Disability/About_PFL.htm