On Wednesday in Oakland, Governor Newsom signed a bill reinstating extra paid sick leave for California workers affected by COVID-19, retroactive to the first of the year. However, the new law has a key exemption: it does not apply to businesses with 25 or fewer employees, meaning a lot of workers will not be covered by it.

That makes up roughly 90 percent of California businesses, but they only employ about 25 percent of the workers in the state, so most people will be eligible for this new sick pay policy.

For more on this, KCBS Radio Political Reporter Doug Sovern, and KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell, spoke to Jenya Cassidy Director of the California Work and Family Coalition, which is based in Alameda and one of the groups that’s been working hard to try to get this bill passed.