In California, on Monday, the Legislature has passed a new bill. They have mentioned that the maximum number of the companies to provide all the workers for around two weeks of the paid leave if they get affected by the COVID-19.
Moreover, the bill came into existence on 1st January. Since the pandemic started, the state and federal laws have needed most workers to provide them the paid holiday if they catch the infection, and they introduced the bill, but as the people were getting vaccinated. The COVID cases were reduced, the laws expired and expired in September.
According to the information provided by the sources, some individuals were not able to pay their bills during the time when they were suffering from the COVID-19 infection and were admitted to the hospital.
Additionally, the Omicron variant is the most contagious compared to all the COVID variants. In the beginning, it was spreading at a rapid pace all over the globe. In California, the cases have set the record of the highest number of cases, and as the cases were soaring, most of the individuals were getting hospitalized, the number of admissions in the hospitals was also rising. Mainly, the people who are not yet vaccinated are most likely to get infected from the Omicron variant.
However, five of the states, including Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington already have the law of paid sick leave.
The sick leave in California gives the employees paid leave for around one week if they get infected with the COVID variant, and also, if any of their family members get infected from the virus, then they will get a similar leave.
The employees can further have more weeks off if their family gets infected from the variant if tested positive. For the leave, the employee has to share the proof of that.
