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In California, employers must give you time off to vote. Here’s how that works

Tuesday is Election Day. Polls are open in California from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. 

California employers must give an employee up to two hours of paid time off to vote if the employee is scheduled to be at work during that time and the employee does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote. Employers must provide this time off for voting “only at the beginning or end of the regular working shift, whichever allows the most free time for voting and the least time off from the regular working shift, unless otherwise mutually agreed.”  

Click here to read the full article written by SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton and published in The San Diego Union-Tribune.

November 4, 2024  |  Categories:
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