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Am I required to limit the use of an employee’s paid sick leave under California's paid sick leave law?

The state-mandated minimum amount of paid sick leave that an employer is required to provide to employees is 40 hours or five days, whichever was greater.

Nothing in the law would prevent you from providing more paid sick leave to your employees.

Legal counsel should review any changes that an employer might choose to make to an existing paid sick leave policy.

Read more about Calculating Leave – Employer Options in the HR Library.

Q&As

If my employees work an alternative workweek of four 10-hour shifts, how much paid sick leave must I allow my employees to use each year?
Can we choose not to limit the use of paid sick leave during an employee’s first 90 days of employment?
What do I need to do to comply with California’s paid sick leave law?
May we deduct from an exempt employee's salary when they have no paid time off accrued and take off a partial day for illness or vacation?
Will all employees earn the full amount of paid sick leave each year no matter how many or how few hours they work?
Must I allow an employee to use sick time when their children are sick?
When an existing employee changes jobs or classifications within a company, can we impose the paid sick leave waiting period?
How does kin care relate to the mandatory sick leave law?
Do I have to grant an employee time off to care for a neighbor?
Can I let an employee who is out of vacation time use sick leave to take time off for a trip?
Do I have to pay an employee who is leaving for unused sick and/or vacation time?
Must I pay overtime on hours an employee is paid for time off such as vacations, holidays and sick time?
How do I pay sick leave under California’s paid sick leave law when an employee has more than one rate of pay?
Can I provide more paid sick leave to some employees and not others?
What is a PTO policy?
If we have a PTO policy, do we have to track mandatory paid sick leave time separately from other reasons for time off?
Am I required to provide sick leave for employees?
If my employee used all their sick leave but still calls out sick and returns with a doctor’s note, can I discipline them for missing too much work?