California employers have been struggling to keep up with the clunky stew of federal and state leaves for years. Unwittingly, therefore, they have been training for years on managing multiple employees’ leaves. What’s two more, they may say?

The two more, of course, are complete gamechangers. We are talking about the pandemic-inspired Emergency Paid Sick Leave (EPSL) and the Expanded Family Medical Leave Act (EFMLA), and the questions employers are contending with now revolve around understanding the new leaves and coordinating them with the existing leave requirements...

Originally published in the Entertainment Human Resources Network and Los Angeles Advertising Human Resources Professionals newsletters - April/May 2020.