Benefits Handbook Links - Updated February 2023

Military Spouse Leave Law - California

In accordance with California law, you will be given up to ten unpaid days off when your spouse is on leave from military deployment. To qualify for this leave, you have to work an average of at least twenty hours per week and have a spouse who is a member of the Armed Forces, National Guard or Reserves who has been deployed during a period of military conflict. You are required to provide notice of taking the leave within at least two business days of receiving official notice that your spouse will be on leave from deployment. Written documentation certifying the spouse will be on leave from deployment is also required. If you would like to do so, you can use accrued but unused PTO leave rather than take unpaid leave. In addition, if you are a member of the reserve corps of the armed forces of the United States or of the National Guard or Naval Militia, you are entitled to a temporary leave of absence without pay while engaged in military duty ordered for purposes of military training, drills, encampment, naval cruises, special exercises or like activity as such member, providing that the period of ordered duty does not exceed 17 calendar days annually, including time involved in going to and returning from such duty.

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