• California prioritizes the needs of families.family image by Mat Hayward from Fotolia.com
  
  The California Family Rights Act (CFRA) protects the jobs of workers who must take leave for family and medical reasons. Pregnancy and childbirth related leave may be taken for up to four months without job loss. In response to devastating wage loss suffered by leave takers, the California Employment Development Department created the Paid Family Leave Insurance program in 1994. This insurance programs pays employees approximately 55 percent of lost earnings.
  
  

CFRA Government Code. Section 12945.

• The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) secures the jobs of California employees who need to exercise leave for pregancy and childbirth related events for up to four months. It also enforces employers to provide suitable work accomodations and transfers for the medical necessity of pregnant employees.
  
  

CFRA Government Code. Section 12945.2.

• This section of the code provides for up to 12 weeks of employment leave for family and medical reasons. The employee must have worked 1,250 hours over the past year. Specific leave reasons include the birth, placement or compromised health of a child, parental care and personal medical care.
  
  

Paid Family Leave Insurance Program

• The Paid Family Leave Insurance program provides up to six weeks of benefits to be paid to California employees exercising their rights under CFRA section 12945.2. The insurance benefit is fully funded by employee contributions via automatic payroll deductions.