San Francisco mandates paid military leave

San Francisco has broken ground, becoming the first jurisdiction to require that certain employers pay certain employees certain amounts of paid military leave. The leave is generally capped at 30 days per year and can be waived by the workers’ union in a collective bargaining agreement.

As noted in a prior post, at least one court has held that the federal military leave law (USERRA) requires paid leave if the company offers paid leave to people on similar non-military leaves, reasoning that USERRA prohibits discrimination against military leave.