At least one California senator wants to increase the amount of money low-wage workers get while on family leave, so it would be 90% of their salary by 2025.
from the California Budget & Policy Center shows the program is still a far reach for most low-income workers. Data from 2020 reveal that California’s workers who earned $20,000 or less a year made up 37% of all workers eligible for paid family leave — the largest share — but they had the lowest family leave utilization rates at 14%.
“I had been waiting to be a parent for a long time, so I was devastated when I had to go back to work,” Sandoval said. Now she is 7, but he says he can’t imagine how he would have survived her being an infant during the pandemic. “I can’t even sit here and think about that; it’s crazy.” Kristin Schumacher, a policy analyst at the California Budget & Policy Center and author of the analysis, said the gap in utilization among low-income earners has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
The only group that spoke against the bill this week was the California Alliance for Retired Americans, which raised concerns that increasing wage replacement rates for both family leave and disability insurance would result in fewer disability benefits for retired recipients down the line. Tom Rankin, the group’s vice president, said the bill, unless amended, could reduce wage replacement rates for disability insurance to 60% after the first 16 weeks, harming ill and injured workers.
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