Minimum wage: Unemployment and disability compensation: family temporary disability insurance.

Under existing law, the family temporary disability insurance program provides up to 6 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. Existing law also requires that an individual claiming disability benefits establish medical eligibility by filing a claim supported by a certificate of a treating physician or practitioner that establishes, among other things, the condition of the family member. Existing law authorizes the Director of Employment Development to require the care recipient to submit to reasonable examinations for the purpose of determining whether a serious health condition exists and the necessity and duration of the worker's care of the recipient. This bill would require the director, prior to ordering an additional examination, to review all available medical records of the recipient to determine whether an additional examination is necessary if the care recipient's personal physician has examined the recipient within the previous 60 days and states that an additional examination would constitute a hardship for the recipient.