iLVcheez,

My brother is also a resident of Cali, and they have a better system there that in the rest of the country I think. When he was having problems, not only was he allowed the time off with pay, the state kicked in the rest of the money to bring him up to his normal pay scale. Since they're tax free dollars, he actually earned more on FMLA than when he was working. I was amazed!

We have the leave in the other states, but I haven't heard of another state picking up the slack for the person off before.