Are we required to allow an employee to use their child bonding leave by taking every Friday off for the next 12 weeks?

If the employee is taking leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), the employee may request child bonding leave on two occasions for less than two weeks in duration. Thereafter, you may require that the employee take leave in increments of two or more weeks. In this case, the employee should be granted two Fridays off, and then you can require that the remainder of their leave be taken in increments of two or more weeks.

Under the CFRA, you have the option to grant the employee's request for additional occasions of leave lasting less than two weeks. But if you decide to do this for one employee, make sure that you follow the same practice for all employees.