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In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slqGnae3-U\">the nine-minute speech\u003c/a>, the governor tore into Trump’s decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043221/newsom-asks-trump-to-rescind-unlawful-deployment-of-troops-in-los-angeles\">to send armed troops to Los Angeles\u003c/a> in response to immigration protests in and around the city, and framed it as part of a larger power grab by the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard, he made that order apply to every state in this nation. This is about all of us. This is all about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here,” Newsom warned. “And other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that the confrontation with Trump gave the governor a break from a thicket of thorny issues back at the state capitol. 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On Sunday, Newsom challenged Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him — “Just get it over with,” Newsom insisted — which Trump said would be a “great thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043221/newsom-asks-trump-to-rescind-unlawful-deployment-of-troops-in-los-angeles\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the military deployment.[aside postID=news_12043314 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomRobBontaGetty.jpg']The back and forth laid bare the strange relationship between Trump and Newsom, who have at times appeared friendly, like when the president traveled to L.A. during the fires there in January. But they both have also relished using the other person as a politically convenient foil to play to their respective bases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, I like Gavin Newsom — he’s a nice guy, but he’s grossly incompetent,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79YvUbDTVQ\">Trump said \u003c/a>Sunday when asked about the incendiary idea of arresting a democratically elected governor. Trump went on to say that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/video/trump-praises-his-response-to-the-la-protests-we-have-it-very-well-under-control-8b132c7063884d92a2aee002bd07e8e0\">Newsom’s crime\u003c/a> was “running for governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been many twists and turns over the years between Newsom and Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Trump’s first term, Newsom stepped forward immediately as one of the president’s most vocal Democratic critics. But this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">Newsom has treaded more carefully\u003c/a>. He has let other Democrats, namely California Attorney General Rob Bonta, take the lead on pushing back against Trump’s agenda. Some of that shift can be attributed to the devastating Los Angeles fires earlier this year and the state’s need for federal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also created some political problems for Newsom — and this showdown with Trump could shore up support for the governor among California Democrats, who have questioned the termed-out governor’s political intentions and policy agenda for his final 18 months in the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal to close \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">a projected $12 billion budget shortfall\u003c/a> rested on cuts to Medicaid coverage for undocumented residents — an idea that garnered fierce pushback from immigrant advocacy groups. A podcast he launched this year, featuring interviews with far-right figures, angered many in his own party — especially after the governor made comments that many on the left saw as throwing transgender kids under the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And voters seemed to question whether Newsom’s eyes were wandering toward the White House. A recent poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found 54% of California voters thought Newsom was focusing more on bolstering a future run for president than on governing the state. Even Democrats were split evenly on this question of the governor’s political compass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republican strategist Tim Rosales said the chance to climb back in the ring with Trump provides a welcome respite for Newsom from tough governing choices that could further divide the governor from his base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that he can do to kind of deflect attention from some of those things and pick a fight with President Trump is certainly beneficial for him,” Rosales said. “It puts Governor Newsom back on the national stage, which is, we all know, where he wants to be and I think where he has eyes toward for 2028.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense — that Newsom is acting out of his own interests, with an eye on his political future — has long dogged the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11781815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Newsom-AB5-Gonzalez-signing-1-e1571781593776.jpeg\" alt=\"Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, right, and labor activists celebrate as Gov. 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Some of that shift can be attributed to the devastating Los Angeles fires earlier this year and the state’s need for federal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also created some political problems for Newsom — and this showdown with Trump could shore up support for the governor among California Democrats, who have questioned the termed-out governor’s political intentions and policy agenda for his final 18 months in the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s proposal to close \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040025/newsom-blames-trump-california-budget-deficit-aims-cap-undocumented-health-care\">a projected $12 billion budget shortfall\u003c/a> rested on cuts to Medicaid coverage for undocumented residents — an idea that garnered fierce pushback from immigrant advocacy groups. 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"content": "\u003cp>California requires employers to provide at least three days of paid sick leave each year to full-time workers. But when the pandemic hit, that wasn’t enough to cover 14-day quarantine requirements. Many workers had to either come in sick or take time off without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in March 2021, Gov. Gavin \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB95\">Newsom signed a new law\u003c/a> requiring companies with more than 25 employees to offer as much as 80 hours of\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/employer/covid-sick-leave.html\"> supplemental sick leave related to COVID-19\u003c/a>, either for quarantines or vaccine side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 30, the program is set to end. The state’s business lobby says it’s time, because many companies can’t afford the leave without a federal tax credit that offsets their costs, which is also expiring. It’s also a relief for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/09/california-jobs-unemplyment-rate/\">some business owners struggling to find workers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though California is currently reporting the lowest COVID-19 case rate in the country, some worker advocates say it’s too soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2021/09/los-angeles-schools-vaccine-mandate/\">return of students to classrooms\u003c/a> means that ending the additional leave could be “a crisis for many working families,” said Katie Waters-Smith, political organizing director for the California Work & Family Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents can’t leave small children at home, so paid sick leave is even more important than usual on two fronts — making sure parents don’t feel like they have to send sick children to school, and making sure that parents can stay home when their children are sent home because of exposure without losing their income or pay,” Waters-Smith said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889754 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1.jpg\" alt='A family smiling and standing together in a parking lot beyond a couple of bikes. 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Huth said even for parents working from home, child care can be difficult to balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re there, but we’re in another room with the door closed,” said Huth, an engineer for the California Air Resources Board. “It really wears on him, and it wears on us, and being able to just say, you know, for these three days I am a parent and I’m going to be available for my 8-year-old … it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Failed efforts to extend leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Paid_Sick_Leave_Facts_and_Resources.pdf\">California’s sick leave law\u003c/a> took effect in 2015. Last year during the pandemic, an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ-for-PSL.html\">gave food workers supplemental leave for COVID-related reasons\u003c/a>, and a state law later extended the leave to non-food employees at large companies. But those requirements expired at the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19Resources/FAQ-for-SPSL-2021.html\">Under the supplemental leave program passed in March\u003c/a>, employees qualify if they are unable to work, even remotely, because they’re in quarantine or isolation, they’re caring for a family member who is, or they’re getting a vaccine or having side effects. Workers can receive as much as $511 a day, or a maximum of $5,110 total, with hours accrued retroactively to Jan. 1. Employers who provide the additional leave receive a federal tax credit equal to the worker’s paid time off, including any health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track how many employees have used the leave. Independent contractors and employees at smaller businesses that don’t opt in are not covered. Some cities and counties also have required supplemental sick leave for COVID-related reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said there are no efforts to extend the COVID sick leave. There were a few failed attempts to expand sick leave in the Legislature this past session. Assemblymember Evan Low, a Democrat from Silicon Valley, said draft legislation on sick leave due to the surging delta variant of the coronavirus wasn’t ready before the session ended on Sept. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed we don’t have a bill to extend paid leave to support workers during the pandemic,” Low tweeted. “But we will not stop trying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Evan_Low/status/1435661410973806595\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB995\">Assembly Bill 995\u003c/a>, authored by San Diego-area Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, sought to increase the 24 hours of paid sick leave to 40 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encouraging workers to stay home when they feel sick has been particularly critical during the COVID-19 pandemic,” \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB995#\">the bill analysis said\u003c/a>. “Some of the worst workplace outbreaks of the virus have occurred in the food sector industry, where on a national level, more than half of its workers cannot take paid sick leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez pulled the bill in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2021/2021-77.html\">three El Super grocery stores in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties were fined more than $447,000\u003c/a> after a state investigation found sick workers were told to come to work until they received their test results, even when they had symptoms, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations. Other employees were denied time off to isolate, even if a household member tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the ongoing COVID threat, it is premature to sunset the supplemental paid sick leave,” said William Dow, professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately we know that in the absence of paid sick leave, too many employees will risk going to work and exposing others,” he said in an email. “Leave to care for others in COVID-19 quarantine or isolation is, of course, important as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California should assume the cost of the federal tax credit for businesses as it expires, he said, or increase the minimum state requirement for paid leave to more than three days. “This would not be as effective because it would incentivize employers to discourage the use of sick leave, but it would be better than nothing,” he said.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"William Dow, professor of health policy and management at UC Berkeley School of Public Health\"]“Unfortunately we know that in the absence of paid sick leave, too many employees will risk going to work and exposing others.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Centeno, a Los Angeles resident and program advocate for Legal Aid at Work, had a breakthrough case of COVID-19 with severe symptoms. The supplemental sick leave gave her the time she needed to recover, since she didn’t have enough sick time accrued otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed desperately to have paid sick leave, and I hate to think that there’s someone out there with a similar amount of debilitating pain that has to worry about financial security and about paying rent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the expiration of the federal tax credit, businesses in California say it’s time to let the program end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California Chamber of Commerce implored the Legislature to avoid any extension of the new law, Senate Bill 95, citing concerns over affordability, as well as abuse of the leave since employers are banned from seeking medical documentation, according to Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate for the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Hoffman said, there are a number of other leave programs available instead of supplemental sick leave, including exclusion pay — which provides employees regular pay for 10 or more days if they are available to work but must quarantine due to a workplace exposure. They can also take as much as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">eight weeks of paid family leave or workers’ compensation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of it is, what can a business afford? We heard, for example, a small business that used to offer other kinds of benefits. But because of all the other paid leave and sick leave, they had to forgo some of the other benefits,” Hoffman said. “It can come at the cost of other things, whether it’s that or a business being able to afford other people to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the law exempts businesses that have 25 or fewer employees, smaller to mid-size firms are still trying to crawl out of the COVID recession they’ve been in for nearly two years, said John Kabateck, California director of the National Federation of Independent Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, every worker should be afforded the ability and right to tend to health challenges and problems for themselves or their families,” he said. “But the problem we have with the supplemental leave bill is … this was being heaped on top of a pile of generous leave programs that employees are able to tap into as it relates to COVID. So this is just one more onerous cost on the fragile corner bookstore, restaurant or auto shop owner and more. And at the end of the day, where do those costs come from?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ashley Hoffman, California Chamber of Commerce policy advocate\"]“A big part of it is, what can a business afford? It can come at the cost of other things, whether it’s that or a business being able to afford other people to work.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The future of sick leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the pandemic laid bare the health and economic impacts of sick leave policies for workers in different industries, gaps existed long before COVID for employees in small firms, domestic workers and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 6.8 million and 19.6 million private-sector workers were left without paid sick days because the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave\">federal coronavirus law exempted companies with fewer than 50 employees\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/\"> the Economic Policy Institute\u003c/a>, a pro-labor think tank in Washington, D.C., said in June 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, those loopholes need to be closed, and workers — regardless of race or ethnicity — also need a permanent fix to this basic labor standard,” the institute said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martha Garrido, a member of La Colectiva de Mujeres de San Francisco, works daily cleaning houses and caring for older adults. But as a domestic worker, she can’t take time off, Garrido said. If she doesn’t work, she doesn’t get paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what I have to do is save some money to take time off, either to be able to take care of a family member if they get sick in an emergency, or because I feel sick or have pain in my hands or body from the work we do without rest,” she said via a translated statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889758 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a T-shirt on a bed, beyond a plate glass window looking onto a cement patio.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garrido lays out a California Domestic Workers Coalition shirt on the bed at her San Francisco home. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents can’t leave small children at home, so paid sick leave is even more important than usual on two fronts — making sure parents don’t feel like they have to send sick children to school, and making sure that parents can stay home when their children are sent home because of exposure without losing their income or pay,” Waters-Smith said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889754 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1.jpg\" alt='A family smiling and standing together in a parking lot beyond a couple of bikes. The kid wears a \"Tri 4 Kids\" T-shirt and a race bib.' width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters2-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Huth with his wife and son. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Huth family.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Huth, whose 8-year-old son Leo had to stay home from a summer day camp after a COVID-19 exposure, said being able to take time off was a big help, with limited child care options in the Sacramento area where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leo’s after-school child care program is at his school, so if there’s a classroom exposure, the only option is to take more time off work. Huth said even for parents working from home, child care can be difficult to balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re there, but we’re in another room with the door closed,” said Huth, an engineer for the California Air Resources Board. “It really wears on him, and it wears on us, and being able to just say, you know, for these three days I am a parent and I’m going to be available for my 8-year-old … it means a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Failed efforts to extend leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Paid_Sick_Leave_Facts_and_Resources.pdf\">California’s sick leave law\u003c/a> took effect in 2015. Last year during the pandemic, an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ-for-PSL.html\">gave food workers supplemental leave for COVID-related reasons\u003c/a>, and a state law later extended the leave to non-food employees at large companies. But those requirements expired at the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19Resources/FAQ-for-SPSL-2021.html\">Under the supplemental leave program passed in March\u003c/a>, employees qualify if they are unable to work, even remotely, because they’re in quarantine or isolation, they’re caring for a family member who is, or they’re getting a vaccine or having side effects. Workers can receive as much as $511 a day, or a maximum of $5,110 total, with hours accrued retroactively to Jan. 1. Employers who provide the additional leave receive a federal tax credit equal to the worker’s paid time off, including any health care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track how many employees have used the leave. Independent contractors and employees at smaller businesses that don’t opt in are not covered. Some cities and counties also have required supplemental sick leave for COVID-related reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said there are no efforts to extend the COVID sick leave. There were a few failed attempts to expand sick leave in the Legislature this past session. Assemblymember Evan Low, a Democrat from Silicon Valley, said draft legislation on sick leave due to the surging delta variant of the coronavirus wasn’t ready before the session ended on Sept. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed we don’t have a bill to extend paid leave to support workers during the pandemic,” Low tweeted. “But we will not stop trying.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB995\">Assembly Bill 995\u003c/a>, authored by San Diego-area Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, sought to increase the 24 hours of paid sick leave to 40 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encouraging workers to stay home when they feel sick has been particularly critical during the COVID-19 pandemic,” \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB995#\">the bill analysis said\u003c/a>. “Some of the worst workplace outbreaks of the virus have occurred in the food sector industry, where on a national level, more than half of its workers cannot take paid sick leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez pulled the bill in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2021/2021-77.html\">three El Super grocery stores in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties were fined more than $447,000\u003c/a> after a state investigation found sick workers were told to come to work until they received their test results, even when they had symptoms, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations. Other employees were denied time off to isolate, even if a household member tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the ongoing COVID threat, it is premature to sunset the supplemental paid sick leave,” said William Dow, professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately we know that in the absence of paid sick leave, too many employees will risk going to work and exposing others,” he said in an email. “Leave to care for others in COVID-19 quarantine or isolation is, of course, important as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California should assume the cost of the federal tax credit for businesses as it expires, he said, or increase the minimum state requirement for paid leave to more than three days. “This would not be as effective because it would incentivize employers to discourage the use of sick leave, but it would be better than nothing,” he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linda Centeno, a Los Angeles resident and program advocate for Legal Aid at Work, had a breakthrough case of COVID-19 with severe symptoms. The supplemental sick leave gave her the time she needed to recover, since she didn’t have enough sick time accrued otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I needed desperately to have paid sick leave, and I hate to think that there’s someone out there with a similar amount of debilitating pain that has to worry about financial security and about paying rent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the expiration of the federal tax credit, businesses in California say it’s time to let the program end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California Chamber of Commerce implored the Legislature to avoid any extension of the new law, Senate Bill 95, citing concerns over affordability, as well as abuse of the leave since employers are banned from seeking medical documentation, according to Ashley Hoffman, policy advocate for the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Hoffman said, there are a number of other leave programs available instead of supplemental sick leave, including exclusion pay — which provides employees regular pay for 10 or more days if they are available to work but must quarantine due to a workplace exposure. They can also take as much as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">eight weeks of paid family leave or workers’ compensation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of it is, what can a business afford? We heard, for example, a small business that used to offer other kinds of benefits. But because of all the other paid leave and sick leave, they had to forgo some of the other benefits,” Hoffman said. “It can come at the cost of other things, whether it’s that or a business being able to afford other people to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the law exempts businesses that have 25 or fewer employees, smaller to mid-size firms are still trying to crawl out of the COVID recession they’ve been in for nearly two years, said John Kabateck, California director of the National Federation of Independent Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake, every worker should be afforded the ability and right to tend to health challenges and problems for themselves or their families,” he said. “But the problem we have with the supplemental leave bill is … this was being heaped on top of a pile of generous leave programs that employees are able to tap into as it relates to COVID. So this is just one more onerous cost on the fragile corner bookstore, restaurant or auto shop owner and more. And at the end of the day, where do those costs come from?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The future of sick leave\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the pandemic laid bare the health and economic impacts of sick leave policies for workers in different industries, gaps existed long before COVID for employees in small firms, domestic workers and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 6.8 million and 19.6 million private-sector workers were left without paid sick days because the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employee-paid-leave\">federal coronavirus law exempted companies with fewer than 50 employees\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/\"> the Economic Policy Institute\u003c/a>, a pro-labor think tank in Washington, D.C., said in June 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, those loopholes need to be closed, and workers — regardless of race or ethnicity — also need a permanent fix to this basic labor standard,” the institute said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martha Garrido, a member of La Colectiva de Mujeres de San Francisco, works daily cleaning houses and caring for older adults. But as a domestic worker, she can’t take time off, Garrido said. If she doesn’t work, she doesn’t get paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what I have to do is save some money to take time off, either to be able to take care of a family member if they get sick in an emergency, or because I feel sick or have pain in my hands or body from the work we do without rest,” she said via a translated statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11889758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11889758 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds a T-shirt on a bed, beyond a plate glass window looking onto a cement patio.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/CalMatters3-1-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Garrido lays out a California Domestic Workers Coalition shirt on the bed at her San Francisco home. Garrido says she was able to avoid falling behind on rent after breaking her hand earlier this year because her landlord gave her a break while she was unable to work. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Garrido slipped while working and broke her hand. She had to have a cast on for seven weeks. She stayed home for about two weeks, but then she went back to work, cleaning houses with her cast on, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrido is working with the California Domestic Workers Coalition to push for more equitable leave policies in San Francisco, including a system making it easier for those with multiple employers to accrue and use their leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has become the first state to implement a law that addresses working conditions for warehouse workers, like those working for Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/22/governor-newsom-signs-nation-leading-legislation-expanding-protections-for-warehouse-workers/\">Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 701\u003c/a>, which takes effect in the new year, into law on Wednesday. The law aims to address the impact of quotas on worker injuries and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It establishes new standards for companies to make clear to warehouse staff what their production quotas are. The legislation ensures workers cannot be fired or retaliated against for failing to meet an unsafe quota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot allow corporations to put profit over people. The hardworking warehouse employees who have helped sustain us during these unprecedented times should not have to risk injury or face punishment as a result of exploitative quotas that violate basic health and safety,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to sign this legislation giving them the dignity, respect and safety they deserve and advancing California’s leadership at the forefront of workplace safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law gives the state Labor Commissioner the authority to issue citations to companies in violation of the new rules. The department is also allowed to access workers’ compensation data to find facilities where there are high rates of injury and investigate whether they are due to unsafe quotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law also bars the use of algorithms that track rests and bathroom breaks, and specifically prohibits the firing of workers for failing to meet unsafe quotas because they are taking breaks in compliance with health and safety laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would also bar companies from retaliating against workers who raise concerns about warehouse conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though not explicitly stated, the new rules are widely considered to be targeted toward Amazon. The Seattle-based behemoth runs more than 60 warehouses across the state, and is known for its demanding productivity requirements.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheheryar Kaoosji, head of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center\"]‘It’s not that those companies can’t afford to do the right thing. It’s what those companies can get away with. And if they’re not held accountable, that’s what they’ll continue to do.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon relies on its thousands of workers to fill its massive warehouses, which it calls “fulfillment centers.” During the pandemic, Americans have relied heavily on online shopping for their goods. In turn, the company, the second-largest employer in the U.S. behind Walmart, hired thousands of workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-to-hire-125000-full--and-part-time-logistics-employees-2021-09-14?mod=article_inline\">and plans to hire an additional 100,000 workers \u003c/a>this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers and labor organizations argue that Amazon’s warehouse rules create an unsafe work environment. \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/amazon-injury-rates/\">Investigations \u003c/a>by various \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/01/amazon-osha-injury-rate/\">news organizations\u003c/a>, in addition to the labor-backed \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/amazon-primed-for-pain/\">Strategic Organizing Center\u003c/a>, have found that \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-crisis/\">the rate of serious injuries at Amazon warehouses has been nearly double the industry average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracked by algorithms, Amazon warehouse workers rush to pack and ship nonstop shopping orders that often must be delivered in a matter of hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers are on the job, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1034776936/amazon-warehouse-workers-speed-quotas-california-bill\">Amazon watches their “time off task,”\u003c/a> which the company says is to monitor for “issues with the tools that people use.” But it also serves to identify underperforming workers. And that, critics say, essentially pressures workers to forgo their state-mandated breaks, or to wait until the end of their shifts to use the bathroom — creating unsafe and unfair working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, is intended more generally to help state regulators get a better handle on how a growing number of employers are using tech in the workplace to control the productivity of their workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were about 206,700 workers in the warehousing and storage industry in California as of June. That figure, however, doesn’t include temporary workers, like the many likely to take on warehouse work in the run-up to the holiday shopping season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that workforce is employed by Amazon. Behind the big yellow “Place your order” button on the company’s site is a vast network of warehouses, filled with nearly 1 million non-union logistics employees across the country — 40,000 in the Inland Empire alone, according to Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/12/01/367703789/amazon-unleashes-robot-army-to-send-your-holiday-packages-faster\">the tech-obsessed retailer is famous for using robots\u003c/a>, sensors and software to maximize productivity, it’s also infamous for burning out its workers, many of whom head to the exit doors suffering from repetitive stress injuries and, well, stress overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How did you come up with this rate? Was it based on what your understanding of what a human body can do? Or was it based on what you think you need to get through in order to make a profit this quarter?” said Sheheryar Kaoosji, executive director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the clock, an army of trucks and trains transport cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to vast warehouses in the Inland Empire counties of San Bernardino and Riverside. There, imported goods are sorted and redistributed onto long-haul trucks, which move them to distribution centers across the West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s rivals, like Walmart and Home Depot, are nipping at the tech titan’s heels, eager to adopt the algorithm-driven productivity tracking tools employed by the company, which logistics experts widely agree is the industry leader in this practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that those companies can’t afford to do the right thing,” said Kaoosji, who has pushed for them to institute humane working conditions that follow labor laws in spirit, as well as practice. “It’s what those companies can get away with. And if they’re not held accountable, that’s what they’ll continue to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In \u003ca href=\"https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/5f/e6/725042574e2da4440c3844f7b40c/senate-judiciary-analysis-ab-7-1.pdf\">a letter this summer to the state Senate Judiciary Committee in support of her legislation\u003c/a>, Gonzalez wrote, “The demand for speed in these warehouses has led to the increasing use of workplace performance metrics and the imposition of work quotas that employees must meet or suffer adverse consequences, including potentially losing their jobs altogether. There is evidence strongly suggesting that the pressure to meet these quotas leads to significantly higher workplace injury rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaoosji, of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, argues there “will never be enough enforcement agents to address the millions of workplaces in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other industry watchers say labor regulation at the state level has historically been weak and largely complaint-driven, and that’s made many workers who are afraid of retaliation unlikely to seek redress from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key is giving workers the protections, voice and power to feel like they can speak up at work about injustices and legal violations and not face immediate retaliation, termination,” Kaoosji said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He considers the new requirements laid out in AB 701 to be only modest improvements, a compromise between labor organizers and big business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon declined to comment specifically on the legislation, but a spokesperson said in an email that the company abides by state and federal laws, such as providing paid breaks and ready access to toilet facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you read some of the news reports, you might think we have no care for employees,” Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO at the time, said in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to-shareholders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 letter to shareholders\u003c/a>. “In those reports, our employees are sometimes accused of being desperate souls and treated as robots. That’s not accurate. They’re sophisticated and thoughtful people who have options for where to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Michelin, president of the California Retailers Association, which strongly opposed the legislation, said the new rules will disrupt the supply chain and hurt consumers, even arguing that the shipment of COVID-19 tests from warehouses and distribution centers to hospitals, pharmacies and doctor’s offices will be slowed because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed Governor Newsom signed AB 701, which will exacerbate our current supply chain issues, increase the cost of living for all Californians and eliminate good-paying jobs,” she \u003ca href=\"https://calretailers.com/cra-responds-to-governor-gavin-newsom-signing-ab-701-into-law/\">said in a statement Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11881047,news_11870797,forum_2010101882947\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With California’s ports facing record backlogs of ships waiting off the coast and inflation spiking to the fastest pace in 13 years, AB 701 will make matters worse for everyone — creating more back-ordered goods and higher prices for everything from clothes, diapers and food to auto parts, toys and pet supplies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the absence of union representation on warehouse floors, a modest set of new workplace improvement measures may be all that can be accomplished right now, according to Catherine Fisk, a labor law professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon, among other logistics companies, has so far successfully fought attempts to unionize any constellation of its vast employee base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers have been trying to unionize warehouses for years, with no success, because companies are so adept at thwarting it by using turnover, anti-union campaigns, restrictions on employee communication with each other, and prohibitions on union organizers from contacting workers,” Fisk said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2019/Future-of-Warehouse-Work.pdf\">Beth Gutelius\u003c/a>, research director of the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois Chicago, has studied the logistics industry for more than a decade. 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"content": "\u003cp>Miranda Griswold and her partner were thrilled to grow their family when they had their first child in 2018. The less thrilling part: adding baby costs to their existing expenses — alimony payments, student loans and credit card bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griswold had a C-section and her doctor recommended she stay at her Merced home for six weeks of recovery time. Her fiance, who works at a commercial printing press, returned to work after one week of vacation because they couldn’t afford for him to take more time off using family leave, which would replace only 60% of his wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no way we could make that percentage work,” said Griswold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez\"]'I think it is cruel that ... we actually deduct the 1.2% from their paycheck and yet we are dangling something that is unattainable if you can’t afford it.'[/pullquote]That’s the case for many workers in California. Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego County, authored a bill this year to increase that percentage — making it more realistic for low-income earners to use the leave that they’re required to fund with 1.2% of every paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 123, which the Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB123\">passed on a 65-0 vote\u003c/a> in May and is now in the Senate, would \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB123\">increase the wage replacement rate\u003c/a> from at least 60% to 90% of a worker’s highest quarterly earnings in the past 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is cruel that we actually deduct the 1.2% from their paycheck and yet we are dangling something that is unattainable if you can’t afford it,” Gonzalez said in an interview.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nUnder current law, California’s paid family leave is often being used by those who can more easily afford going without full pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers making less than $20,000 a year filed nearly 48,000 family leave claims in 2019, only slightly more than the 46,000 filed by those earning $100,000 or more a year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/pdf/Impact-of-Increasing-the-State-Disability-Insurance-Wage-Replacement.pdf\">according to the state Employment Development Department\u003c/a> (EDD). And between 2017 and 2019, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/pdf/Impact-of-Increasing-the-State-Disability-Insurance-Wage-Replacement.pdf\">number of claims from the lowest-wage workers declined\u003c/a> while claims by workers of every other income group increased, with claims from the highest earners rising most of all, by one-third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/85faf7d8-12f0-4a13-96eb-d87eb3d4c7f7?src=embed\" title=\"Paid family leave claims\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total in 2019, the state paid nearly $1.1 billion in family leave benefits, including $287 million to those making $100,000 or more a year. 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It was included as an expansion of the state’s disability insurance program, compensating employees who took time off to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a new child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jill Thompson, Audrey Irmas Project for Women and Girls’ Rights at Public Counsel\"]'I almost feel like low-wage workers are subsidizing the rest of us because they’re paying into the system but not reaping the benefits.'[/pullquote]In 2016, then-Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles authored a bill to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB908\">increase wage replacements based on income\u003c/a>: 70% for those earning below one-third of the state average, and 60% for those who earn more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom extended the amount of time employees could take off from six to eight weeks. And last year, he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1383\">signed a bill\u003c/a> authored by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson of Santa Barbara, which expanded the law requiring large employers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2020/09/family-leave-bill-working-moms/\">grant 12 weeks of unpaid leave\u003c/a> to any employer with at least five workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage replacement rates in the 2016 law were due to expire on Jan. 1, 2022. In the budget deal last month between Newsom and the Legislature, the higher rates were extended to Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage replacement of at least 90% was also advocated in a December 2020 report from the California Health and Human Services Agency \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-west-prod-chhs-01.dsh.ca.gov/chhs/uploads/2020/12/01104743/Master-Plan-for-Early-Learning-and-Care-Making-California-For-All-Kids-FINAL.pdf\">outlining a revamp of the state’s early learning and child care system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Thompson, directing attorney of the Audrey Irmas Project for Women and Girls’ Rights at Public Counsel, said she would like to see the higher benefits available for at least the lowest-wage earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost feel like low-wage workers are subsidizing the rest of us because they’re paying into the system but not reaping the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, full-time workers at small businesses making California’s current minimum wage of $13 an hour get $6.24 a week deducted from their paycheck for family leave. Their pay before taxes is $520 a week, which means a weekly benefit of $364 under current law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That amount is under the poverty line,” Thompson said. “They’re expected to live under the poverty limit? No wonder people don’t do it. It’s not viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/eb949d75-af4b-4094-82b1-12bbcd53b706?src=embed\" title=\"Paid family leave for different employees\" width=\"800\" height=\"843\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Paid Family Leave in Real Life\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For Jerry Sandoval, a 36-year old San Diego resident, the 60% wage replacement was not enough. He made about $1,000 a week in 2014 and took paid family leave after the birth of his daughter. 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But with a mortgage to pay and a household to maintain, neither Palmer nor her husband could afford to take leave or hire someone to take care of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10.jpg\" alt=\"Two adults are sitting on the couch, looking at a baby, who is resting on the lap of one of the adults. Another young child plays with a dog on the carpet not too far from them.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miranda Griswold dresses 23-month-old Jax for bed with her fiance, Matt Calhoun, while 3-year-old Rhys plays with the family dog at their Merced home on July 8, 2021. 'What are we doing to our families?' asked Griswold of the current family leave policy, and adds, 'there’s no support.' \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t even know if it was safe to have someone in the home caring for her — and honestly, couldn’t even afford it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer switched jobs so she could work from home. She serves as the executive director of BreastfeedLA, which has been advocating for the passage of the bill alongside the Work and Family Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allowing that paid time where parents and the babies can learn to get to know each other and learn each other’s cues is so important,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04.jpg\" alt=\"The camera views at the arm of a child who plays with a toy train. The toy train is red and made of wood and moves around wooden railroad tracks that are set in a circle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881099\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Calhoun, plays with this son Rhys, 3, at their Merced home on July 8, 2021. Calhoun was only able to afford to take one week off from his job at a printing press when Rhys was born in 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Looking at the Bottom Line\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The bill does not increase employer contributions; instead, it increases the amount that employees pay into the state family leave fund from each paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While businesses will adapt and accommodate leaves as needed, the bill may be a bad deal for employees, according to the Central Valley Business Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Clint Olivier, Business Federation of the Central Valley\"]'The state says, well, this is such a small amount of money the worker won’t be able to feel it. But the situation on the ground is much different.'[/pullquote]“In terms of this legislation, it’s a tax increase on everyday Californians, and so many workers in the state of California are having a hard time making ends meet with the cost of things going up,” said Clint Olivier, CEO of the federation, which represents about 70 businesses and associations across five counties, including Chevron and the California Association of Food Banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would increase worker contributions by 0.1% to 0.2% per year, which Olivier estimates will be about $300 out of workers’ paychecks by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state says, well, this is such a small amount of money the worker won’t be able to feel it. But the situation on the ground is much different,” Olivier told CalMatters. “It begs the question: Who is in a better place to determine how that money is spent, the individual or the state? 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In the budget deal last month between Newsom and the Legislature, the higher rates were extended to Jan. 1, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage replacement of at least 90% was also advocated in a December 2020 report from the California Health and Human Services Agency \u003ca href=\"https://cdn-west-prod-chhs-01.dsh.ca.gov/chhs/uploads/2020/12/01104743/Master-Plan-for-Early-Learning-and-Care-Making-California-For-All-Kids-FINAL.pdf\">outlining a revamp of the state’s early learning and child care system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill Thompson, directing attorney of the Audrey Irmas Project for Women and Girls’ Rights at Public Counsel, said she would like to see the higher benefits available for at least the lowest-wage earners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I almost feel like low-wage workers are subsidizing the rest of us because they’re paying into the system but not reaping the benefits,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, full-time workers at small businesses making California’s current minimum wage of $13 an hour get $6.24 a week deducted from their paycheck for family leave. 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But he went back to work after getting his first reduced paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval, who now helps advocate for increased wages with the California Work and Family Coalition, recalls his hustle as a new father, working in a hotel by day and a graveyard shift at a casino at night. For a few hours in between, he’d go home to spend time with his baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tough. You don’t realize how hard it is until you go through it,” he said. “I do feel like in the future, if I ever have to use paid leave, I want to be able to take full advantage of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for higher wage-earners, the coronavirus pandemic added new layers of financial difficulty to trying to take California’s paid family leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arissa Palmer, 44, of Orange, brought her mother-in-law for a visit from Maryland before the pandemic but she was unable to fly back. She suffers from dementia and needs care 24 hours a day. But with a mortgage to pay and a household to maintain, neither Palmer nor her husband could afford to take leave or hire someone to take care of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881098\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11881098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10.jpg\" alt=\"Two adults are sitting on the couch, looking at a baby, who is resting on the lap of one of the adults. Another young child plays with a dog on the carpet not too far from them.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_10-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miranda Griswold dresses 23-month-old Jax for bed with her fiance, Matt Calhoun, while 3-year-old Rhys plays with the family dog at their Merced home on July 8, 2021. 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The toy train is red and made of wood and moves around wooden railroad tracks that are set in a circle.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881099\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/070821_FamilyLeave_AW_sized_04-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Calhoun, plays with this son Rhys, 3, at their Merced home on July 8, 2021. 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