Paid Family Leave – Employers

Paid Family Leave – Employers Paid Family Leave – Employers Paid Family Leave (PFL) provides benefit payments when your employee needs time off from work to: Care for a seriously ill family member. Bond with a new child entering the family through birth, adoption, or foster care placement. Support a family member in the US armed forces who is deploying to a foreign country. Eligibility Requirements To get PFL benefits, your employee must: Be unable to do their regular work. Have lost wages due to their need for family leave. Be working or looking for work when their family leave starts. Have earned at least $300 and paid into State Disability Insurance (SDI) in the last 18 months. Submit any required supporting documents. For more information, visit Basic Eligibility for Your Employees Employer Requirements We fund PFL benefits through State Disability Insurance (SDI) contributions. These are withheld from your employees’ paychecks. They most often show up as CASDI on their paystubs. Employers must: Collect employee payroll contributions and send them to us. Provide your employees with information about benefit programs. Respond to employee claims for PFL benefits. For more information, visit Employer Requirements Alternatives to State Disability Insurance Disability Insurance Elective Coverage – Self Employed and Independent Contractors We offer optional Disability Insurance Elective Coverage (DIEC). This program is for self-employed or independent contractors who don't pay into SDI. DIEC can protect you against income loss with PFL and disability coverage for when you can't work. You pay quarterly premiums to fund the program. For more information about the elective coverage program, visit Disability Insurance Elective Coverage If you have approved Elective Coverage and need to apply for family leave visit Paid Family Leave Voluntary Plans A Voluntary Plan (VP) is an employer alternative to State Disability Insurance (SDI). VPs are a private short-term disability insurance option. A VP must provide all the benefits of SDI and at least one benefit that is better than SDI. It can’t cost employees more than SDI. An employer or a majority of employees can apply for approval of a VP to provide PFL and disability benefits. For more information, visit Voluntary Plan Information If your employer has a voluntary plan and you need to apply for family leave, talk to your employer’s personnel or benefits office for more information. Additional Information Employers – General Information Employers – Forms and Publications Employers – FAQs DIEC – Apply, Forms and FAQ Voluntary Plan Claim Eligibility and Requirements Voluntary Plans – Forms and Publications Voluntary Plans – FAQs Skip to Virtual Chat Leaving the EDD Website You are about to leave our website. Leave Website Language Resources منابع اللغة (Arabic) լեզվական ռեսուրսները (Armenian) منابع زبان (Farsi) भाषा संसाधन (Hindi) 言語ソース (Japanese) 언어 자료 (Korean) ធនធានភាសា (Mon-Khmer [Cambodian]) ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਸਰੋਤ (Punjabi) Языковые ресурсы (Russian) 语言资源 (Simplified Chinese) Recursos en otros idiomas (Spanish) Mga Resource ng Wika (Tagalog) แหล่งข้อมูลด้านภาษา (Thai) 語言資源 (Traditional Chinese) Nguồn Hỗ Trợ Ngôn Ngữ (Vietnamese)