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• SB 1105 – requires revision to paid sick leave policies applicable to agricultural workers who work outdoors, so that they may use the benefit for additional, preventative care purposes to avoid smoke, heat, or flooding conditions created by a local or state emergency.
• SB 1137 and AB 1815 – require revision to equal employment opportunity and anti-harassment, discrimination, and retaliation policies to update the definitions of “race” and “protective hairstyles,” and to specify that harassment or discrimination based on a combination of protected characteristics is prohibited.
• AB 2123 – requires revision to policies regarding California state’s Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) program, to remove any provisions that employees must use two weeks of available vacation time prior to becoming eligible to receive PFL.
• AB 2499 – requires revisions to paid sick leave and crime victim’s leave and accommodation policies, to include new purposes for which paid sick leave may be used and the new purposes for which crime victim’s leave may be taken, among other significant changes. 

Our prior blog post summarizing the new laws can be viewed here. 

Employers with questions about any of the above legislation, or who wish to receive assistance with handbook updates, may contact one of the authors or their usual counsel at AALRR.

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