If I am a small employer, can my employees use Paid Family Leave (PFL)?

Paid Family Leave (PFL) is a wage replacement benefit program, from which employees may be paid benefits during a leave of absence such as family or medical leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) or the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). It does not, however, create the right to a leave of absence and does not require you to guarantee reinstatement rights other than those already mandated by law.

PFL covers employees at organizations of any size; however, benefits are available only when an employee is on a leave of absence to care for a seriously ill family member (parent, spouse, child, grandparent, grand- child, sibling, parent-in-law or registered domestic