What happens if an employee wants to take time off with the baby just after pregnancy disability leave?

An employee disabled by pregnancy working for an employer with five or more employees (or for most public employers, regardless of size) is entitled to pregnancy disability leave (PDL) and also may be entitled to up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected child bonding leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA).

Leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), covering employers with 50 or more employees, runs at the same time as PDL, but leave under CFRA does not. This means an employee could take four months of pregnancy disability leave, followed by 12 weeks of CFRA leave for child bonding, totaling nearly seven months of job-protected leave. This