• A California Legislative Women’s Caucus priority bill to provide job-protected new parent leave for up to 2.7 million more Californians has passed off the Senate floor and is now headed to the governor’s desk. The vote was 24-12.
Senate Bill 654 by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), the New Parent Leave Act, will provide six weeks of unpaid job-protected maternity and paternity leave for employees of companies with 20 to 49 employees. Under current law, only those who work for an employer of 50 or more are eligible for job-protected leave.
This article appears in Sep 8-15, 2016.