Oct 26, 2021
California advocates for paid family leave are walking back expectations that the federal Build Back Better Act could expand the state’s existing benefit.
In 2002, California became the first state to create a family leave benefit. Employees here can take up to eight partially paid weeks a year to care for family or bond with a child.
The Biden Administration’s original goal of 12 weeks paid family and medical leave would have boosted the state’s policy. Now, Democrats are reportedly fighting to keep at least four weeks in the bill as intraparty negotiations continue.