What job-protected leave for school activities means
Schools are back in session across San Diego County. California law entitles parents of kids in kindergarten through 12th grade to time off from their jobs at larger employers to support their children’s school-related activities or to address school-related emergencies.
Under California’s Family-School Partnership Act, Labor Code section 230.8, a parent, as defined, working for an employer with 25 or more employees is entitled to job-protected leave to place his or her child in a school or licensed child care provider or “to participate in activities of the child’s school or licensed child care provider” if the employee gives the employer reasonable notice of “the planned absence.”
The same law gives a parent the right to leave for a “child care provider or school emergency” with notice to the employer. An emergency includes: (1) a school’s directive to pick up the child; (2) behavioral or discipline problems; (3) closure or unexpected unavailability of the school; or (4) a natural disaster, such as an earthquake.
Click here to read the full article written by SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton and published in The San Diego Union-Tribune.