California will stop making companies pay employees who can’t work because they caught COVID-19 while on the job.
For the past two years, California workplace regulators have tried to slow the spread of the coronavirus by requiring infected workers to stay home while also guaranteeing them they would still be paid.
While the board approved the new rule by a 6-1 vote, many board members said they were disappointed the rule was changed. The new rules will last for two years because they are temporary regulations put in place in response to the pandemic. Workers who do miss work because of the coronavirus can use sick leave. A state law, passed earlier this year, requires companies to give workers up to two weeks of paid time off if they get sick from the coronavirus. But that law expires in December, and it’s not clear if lawmakers will extend it in 2023.
"It doesn’t matter where the worker got the virus. To show up at work with it can then become a workplace outbreak," Steiger said.
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