An Administrator's Guide to California Private School Law

Chapter 8 – Leaves And Absences

L EAVE T O P ERFORM E MERGENCY D UTIES O R T O A TTEND R ELATED T RAINING

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Employees are allowed to take unpaid leave to perform emergency duty as a volunteer firefighter, a reserve peace officer, or emergency rescue personnel. 1383 An employee who performs duty as a volunteer firefighter, a reserve peace officer, or as emergency rescue personnel, and who works for an employer employing 50 or more employees, may also take time off of work for the purpose of engaging in fire, law enforcement, or emergency rescue training. 1384 An employee is eligible to take this leave no more than an aggregate of 14 days per calendar year. 1385 T IME O FF T O V OTE If an employee does not have sufficient time to vote outside of his or her working hours, he or she may take time off to vote at the beginning or the end of the shift, whichever provides sufficient time to vote. The school is required to pay the employee for the first two (2) hours of time taken to vote. 1386 The employee must provide the school with at least two (2) working days’ notice that he or she will be taking time off to vote. 1387 A. S CHOOL A CTIVITY The Family School Partnership Act provides employees the option of taking leave to participate in their children’s education. 1388 Under the Act, an employee who is a parent, guardian, or grandparent having custody of a child in kindergarten or grades one through twelve, including a licensed child care facility, can take off up to forty hours a year, but may not exceed more than eight (8) hours a calendar month, to participate in the child’s school activities or to address a child care provider or school emergency. 1389 School activities include, but are not limited to, field trips, open houses, and extracurricular activities. A child care provider or school emergency means that an employee’s child cannot remain in school or with a child care provider due to one of the following: (1) The school or child care provider has requested that the child be picked up, or has an attendance policy, excluding planned holidays, that prohibits the child from attending or requires the child to be picked up from the school or child care provider; (2) behavioral or discipline problems; (3) closure or unexpected unavailability of the school or child care provider, excluding planned holidays; or a (4) A natural disaster, including, but not limited to, fire, earthquake, or flood. 1390 Section 13 Section 14 L EAVE T O A PPEAR A T C HILD ' S S CHOOL

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