Labor/Employment,
Government
Mar. 6, 2020
Bill would ban employers from retaliating against quarantined coronavirus patients
AB 3123 would also allow employees to use earned sick days for childcare if their child’s school is shut down due to a public health crisis, or if they are quarantined but haven’t technically contracted a disease, according to the bill’s author Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez.
In an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 across California, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez proposed a bill Thursday that would ban employers from firing or retaliating against employees who take days off from work to follow quarantine orders by public health officials or medical personnel.
AB 3123 would also allow employees to use earned sick days for childcare if their child’s school is shuttered due to a public health crisis, o...
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