Privileges Of Voters - - CA Elections

Section § 14000

If you don't have enough time outside of work to vote in a statewide election, you can take time off from work without losing pay. You can take up to two hours off at the start or end of your shift, depending on what works best for you and your employer, to minimize time away from work.

If you think you'll need time off to vote, you must notify your employer at least two days before the election, provided you know this by the third day before the election.

(a) If a voter does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote at a statewide election, the voter may, without loss of pay, take off enough working time that, when added to the voting time available outside of working hours, will enable the voter to vote.

(b) No more than two hours of the time taken off for voting shall be without loss of pay. The time off for voting shall be only at the beginning or end of the regular working shift, whichever allows the most free time for voting and the least time off from the regular working shift, unless otherwise mutually agreed.

(c) If the employee on the third working day prior to the day of election, knows or has reason to believe that time off will be necessary to be able to vote on election day, the employee shall give the employer at least two working days’ notice that time off for voting is desired, in accordance with this section.

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(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

Section § 14001

Ten days before a statewide election, employers must display a notice about voting rights detailed in Section 14000. This notice should be put up where it can easily be seen by employees at their workplace or as they enter and leave.

Not less than 10 days before every statewide election, every employer shall keep posted conspicuously at the place of work, if practicable, or elsewhere where it can be seen as employees come or go to their place of work, a notice setting forth the provisions of Section 14000.

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(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

Section § 14002

This law states that the rules in Sections 14000, 14001, and 14004 are applicable to both public agencies and their employees and to private industry employers and workers.

Sections 14000, 14001, and 14004 shall apply to all public agencies and the employees thereof, as well as to employers and employees in private industry.

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(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 223, Sec. 2. (AB 17) Effective January 1, 2020.)

Section § 14003

In California, voters are not required to serve in the militia on election days unless there is a war or public danger.

Except in time of war or public danger, no voter is obliged to perform militia duty on any election day.

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(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)

Section § 14004

This law says that employers can't ask workers to bring their vote-by-mail ballots to work or to fill them out at work. However, employers are allowed to encourage their employees to vote.

(a) An employer shall not require or request that an employee bring the employee’s vote by mail ballot to work or vote the employee’s vote by mail ballot at work.

(b) This section does not prohibit an employer from encouraging an employee to vote.

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(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 223, Sec. 3. (AB 17) Effective January 1, 2020.)