Additionally, Newsom will create a task force to consider different options to phase-in and expand the Paid Family Leave program. One of the options is to allow each parent to take up to three months of parental leave. If the child has only one parent (e.g. single mom or single dad), he or she can appoint a close relative to take the other three months of parental leave.
Furthermore, the task force will consider options to increase participation in the Paid Family Leave program among eligible workers. It will consider the interactions of any proposed expansions with Chapter 5, States of 2016 (AB 908), which increased the disability insurance wage rate from 55 percent to 70 percent for low-income earners. The statute also increased disability insurance wage rate to 60 percent for all other earners up to a specified wage level.
