Paid Family Leave (PFL) Pilot Program
Paid Family Leave (PFL) is a valuable program that makes it easier for you to take time off to care for a family member without being worried about your income. The pilot will launch on January 1, 2025, and will run through December 31, 2026.
PFL is available to active, full-time permanent, non-represented employees who are eligible for MegaFlex/Flex cafeteria benefit plans.
To find out if you are eligible:
- Go to the County of Los Angeles’ (County) Class and Salary Listing, Alphabetical Order, by clicking HERE.
- Find your Classification/Item description and reference the last column titled Bargaining Unit.
- If your assigned Bargaining Unit is listed either as 990, 991, 995, 996, 998, or 999, you are a non-represented MegaFlex or Flex employee and you are eligible to enroll in the PFL Pilot program.
- If you are unsure of your Classification/Item description, contact your payroll unit for assistance.
*Superior Court and Grand Jury employees are not eligible to participate in the PFL Pilot program.
Have more questions? Try our new County Chatbot, PFL Assistant, by clicking on the red icon.
Eligible employees will have the option to purchase 70% income replacement in weekly increments, for a maximum of eight weeks over the two-year PFL Pilot program. Participating employees must elect a minimum of one week of income replacement benefits.
A week is defined as a period of 40 hours.
You can use your PFL to care for qualifying family members with a serious health condition including a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, grandparent, grandchild or a designated person.
PFL is available for taking time to bond following the birth of a new child, or after the placement of an adopted or foster child.
PFL can also be used to take time to care of family needs if you have a spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent who is a member of the Armed Forces and they are called to active duty for foreign deployment.
Have more questions? Try our new County Chatbot, PFL Assistant, by clicking on the red icon.
Eligible employees as of October 31, 2024, will have a one-time special enrollment window from November 1, 2024, through November 15, 2024. Employees hired or promoted to a PFL-eligible item on or after November 1, 2024, can enroll in the PFL Pilot program within 60 days of their hire/promotion date.
Eligible employees can only enroll online at mylacountybenefits.com. The enrollment site will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can be accessed by mobile phone, tablet, and personal computer.
Look for and click on the “Paid Family Leave link” on mylacountybenefits.com to enroll.
The employee will contribute half of the benefit-cost. PFL deductions are taken on an after-tax basis.
Existing employees that elected to purchase PFL time during the November 1, 2024, through November 15, 2024 enrollment period, will see their first deduction on the January 15, 2025, pay stub. Employees who become PFL eligible on or after November 1, 2024, will see their first deduction on the first of the month following the date they made their PFL election, plus one month.
Click on the links below for examples on how to calculate your estimated deduction cost.
Deduction Example - 1 Week of PFL - Administrative Services Manager III
You can submit a claim by following the steps below:
Contact Sedgwick (the County’s Third-Party Administrator) telephonically 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week at (800) 786-8600 or file a claim online at:to https://login.mysedgwick.com/LACounty
Complete the forms and return them along with supporting medical documentation to Sedgwick.
For the PFL Flowchart, a step-by-step guide to using your PFL, click HERE.
Questions??
Try the new County Chatbot, PFL Assistant, by clicking on the red icon.
For additional assistance or for questions that cannot be answered by the Chatbot, please reach out to the PFL Team at pfl@hr.lacounty.gov.
For questions about your claim, contact the Sedgwick Care Team at (800) 786-8600 Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.