California Emergency Responder (California Labor Code Section §230.3)

NOTE: This leave will not appear on claims if your organization has chosen not to administer it.

Covered Employers: California employers

Employee Eligibility: All employees

Entitlement: Employees shall be permitted to take temporary leaves of absence to perform emergency duty as a volunteer firefighter, a reserve peace officer, or an officer, employee, or member of a disaster medical response entity sponsored or requested by the State

Employer Notice: Not Specified

Employee Notice: An employee must notify his or her employer at the time the employee becomes designated as emergency response personnel and when the employee is notified that he or she will be deployed as a member of a disaster medical response team. When called to emergency service, an employee should notify the employer as soon as practicable of the need for leave under this policy and provide information regarding the start and end dates for the requested leave.

Obligation to Provide Certifications or Documents Supporting Need for Leave: Not specified

Paid?: Not specified

Benefits: Not specified

Reinstatement: An employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment may be entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits.

Other Important Definitions/Requirements: "Emergency rescue personnel” means any person who is an officer, employee, or member of a fire department or fire protection or firefighting agency of the federal government, the State of California, a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state, or of a sheriff’s department, police department, or a private fire department, or of a disaster medical response entity sponsored or requested by this state, whether that person is a volunteer or partly paid or fully paid, while he or she is actually engaged in providing emergency services as defined by Section 1799.107 of the Health and Safety Code.

Relationship with Other Leave: NA

ClaimVantage Absence Specification