California State Employee Time Off Policy
DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
Article 13.Absences
599.785.5 Administrative Time Off During State of Emergency
(a) Employees may be granted a paid leave of absence of up
to five days by their appointing power when the employee works or
resides in a county where a state of emergency has been
proclaimed by the Governor and the appointing power determines
that at least one of the following conditions exist:
(1) The employee's normal place of business is closed
temporarily. during the employee's normal work shift. due to
the effects of the emergency.
(2) The emergency effectively precludes the employee's
ability to find reasonable routes of transportation from the
employee's normal residence to the work place.
(3) The emergency presents an immediate and grave peril to
the employee's own safety, that of an employee's immediate family
member. or the employee's principal residence.
(4) The employee is actively involved in a formal, organized
effort to protect the health and safety of the general public:
such as, the employee is a member of the auxiliary fire or police
department or the employee is asked by local authorities to
assist with sandbagging efforts.
(5) The employee needs to take time off to apply for
disaster assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) because the employee is unable to apply for assistance
before or after the employee's normal work shift.
(b) An employee may be granted a paid leave of absence up to
five days by the employee's appointing power regardless of the
location of the disaster when the employee is preregistered with,
and providing volunteer service to, a State agency carrying out
its responsibilities under the Governor's Executive Order D-25-
83. The employees providing volunteer service are required to
notify their appointing power of their affiliation with the
volunteer services and to establish prior arrangements regarding
the notification of the appointing power in the event the
employee is asked to participate in the State disaster response.
The appointing power shall release the employee to provide
volunteer service when an emergency occurs unless there is a
critical departmental operating reason to prevent such a release.
(c) No paid leave of absence shall exceed five working days
without the prior approval of the appointing power and the prior
approval of the Department of Personnel Administration, The
Department of Personnel Administration shall grant approval of a
paid leave of absence in excess of five working days based on its
finding that one of the criteria above continues to be met.
(d) State employees called into service as specified in
Government Code 19844.5 are excluded from the above standards.
NOTE: Authority cited: Sections 19815.4(d) and 19816,
Government Code.
Reference cited: Section 19991.10, Government Code.