Victims' Leave: Time Off for Treatment and Services for Employers With 25 or More Employees

In addition to providing employees with time off to attend legal proceedings for various reasons, employers with 25 or more employees must provide leave to employees who are victims, or whose family members are victims, to seek treatment and services related to the act of violence.¹

For purposes of this leave, a family member may be a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or domestic partner, as those terms are defined under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) or a “designated person.”² A designated person is any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family