Forty of those hours are applied towards isolation and quarantine, COVID-19 vaccines, and caring for a child whose school or place of care is closed. For information on California occupational safety and health standards related to COVID-19, please see COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Worker Health Resources, compiled by the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program.Ģ022 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave: Public and private sector employees who work for employers with over 25 employees are entitled to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick due to COVID-19. To request to add a local policy to this page, please email For more information on federal and state responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic impact of the pandemic on California, please see our landing page, COVID-19 Series: Resources, Data, and Analysis for California. This page will be updated on an ongoing basis. This is followed by select model policies from outside California, such as gig worker pay and high-road wage subsidies. Much work still needs to be done to ensure that all workers have access to sick leave and health care and to protect job security.īelow is a list of California city and county ordinances, proclamations, mayoral directives, and public health orders that expand labor standards for workers affected by the pandemic, such as paid sick leave, health care, worker retention/right of return, hazard pay, and policies that lift workers’ voices in firms and industries. California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a number of executive orders to increase access to unemployment and disability insurance, workers compensation, health care, and paid sick leave. Key federal policies - including the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFRCA) and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act - provide sick leave, paid family leave, and unemployment aid to some workers affected by the pandemic, but exclude large swaths of workers depending on firm size and immigration status. Local governments in California and across the US have begun to enact policies to protect workers against the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplementing and filling gaps in federal and state policies.
Part of the Labor Center’s Covid-19 Series: Resources, Data, and Analysis for California
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