New Parent Leave Act Archives

California’s Small Employers Must Allow Parents Leave to Bond with a New Child

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Kathy White, Esq.

NPLA All-On-One Poster sticker update - English

The New Parent Leave Act (NPLA) – What’s New? For just over a year now, new parents in California who work for small employers have been exercising the same right to take child-bonding leave that new parents employed by large employers have enjoyed for the last twenty-five years. California’s New Parent Leave Act (NPLA), which Read more

California’s New Parent Leave Act Reaches New Parents Who Work for Small Businesses

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Kathy White, Esq.

For nearly twenty-five years, both the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) and the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) have required large employers, those with 50 or more employees, to provide their employees with 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted child or newly-placed foster child. Small businesses are, Read more