Pregnancy leave in California?
What are the different pregnancy disability or maternity/paternity leave acts for California? Does anyone know a good place to find information on this? Are there any paid leave or is it all unpaid? How much time do you get to spend with your new baby before having to return to work? What are the eligibility requirements?
Please help! I am so confused and do not know anything about these leave acts!
California has GREAT “family bonding” leave! 
To qualify, you must be employed and paying SDI. You can be hired today, and qualify to start leave tomorrow.
As the mother, you are allowed to begin your pregnancy-related disability leave beginning three weeks before your due-date (assuming no complicatoins — you can start earlier if medically indicated), and for six weeks afterwards.
After those six weeks post partum, you no longer qualify for disability. However, you do qualify for Paid Family Leave (a new thing, as of 2004). This is an additional six weeks paid leave. The difference here is that you don’t have to take it all at once — you can take it (all at once or in chunks) any time within one year of the birth or adoption of a child. (There are other events that qualify for PFL, but this is the relevant bit here.) DADS ALSO QUALIFY FOR PFL!
As the mother, you will be sent PFL special Paid Family Leave forms with your last disability check, so it’s cake. Your baby’s father can obtain them from his employer’s HR department.
Your doctor’s office will have the forms you need to apply for disability.
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