The long answers.

The short version: California does not pay you a salary while you are on leave. It pays a percentage of your wages, through two separate programs, for two separate reasons, and you have to apply for e...

You have 49 days from the day your disability begins to file your SDI claim. Miss it and California can reduce or delay what it pays you, and there is often no way to argue your way back.

Of everythi...

Most California parents are told they get twelve weeks. Many are entitled to considerably more, because two separate laws stack back to back and almost nobody explains the second one.

Job protection ...

You do not owe your employer your medical history. You owe them enough notice to plan around, at a time that suits you, in writing.

This is the part people lose sleep over. Not the forms, not the mon...