Kin Care

Under California’s kin care law, you must allow employees to use one-half of their annual sick leave entitlement to care for a family member.

The kin care law does not require that the amount of days available for kin care carry over from year to year. You can limit the amount of kin care leave to one-half of that year’s allotment of sick leave, regardless of what was or was not taken the year before.

Employers who deny employees kin care face financial penalties imposed by the state and as well as civil lawsuits.

California’s kin care law allows employees to use kin care for the same purposes specified