As a reminder, employers covered by San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) are required to submit the 2015 Employer Annual Reporting Form to the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE) by April 30, 2016. Failure to submit the form may result in penalties of $500 per quarter. If you were not covered by the HCSO in any quarter of 2015, you do not need to submit the form, and no further action is required.
Employers can check whether they are required to complete the form by completing a short survey on the first page of the Annual Reporting Form. Employers that were not covered by the HCSO in 2015 will be directed to a web page indicating that they do not need to complete the remainder of the 2015 Employer Annual Reporting Form.
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On April 11, 2016, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 908 into law. The law will bolster the Paid Family Leave (PFL) program for all California workers by increasing the PFL wages available to workers who take time off to care for ill family members or bond with a new child.
Under the current California PFL law, California workers may receive 55 percent of their wages for up to six weeks. However, starting Jan. 1, 2018, those wages will increase as follows:
If an employee earns up to 33 percent of the state's average weekly wage ($1,120.67), the employee’s PFL wage replacement will go from 55 to 70 percent of normal earnings;If an employee earns more than 33 percent of the state's average weekly wage ($1,120.67), that employee’s PFL wage replacement will go from 55 to 60 percent of normal earnings.In addition to PFL wage increases, the new law eliminates the one-week waiting period for PFL claims. The 6-week period for PFL benefits will not change.
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