The 2020 California Assembly Bill 2992 expands protections for crime victims in the following three ways: 1) Employers are now prohibited from discharging, discriminating, or retaliating against victims of any misdemeanor or felony crime - not just domestic violence, stalking, or rape - for taking time off work to obtain relief (such as getting a restraining order). 2) Employees can now use documentation by a victim advocate to show the employer why the absence was necessary. Alternatively, employees can now use a written statement signed by themselves (or someone representing them) as documentation. Prior to the new law, the only forms of acceptable documentation included police reports, court orders, and reports from health care providers or counselors. 3) Businesses employing 25 or more people now cannot fire or retaliate against crime victims for missing work to obtain services from a victim services organization or agency. This is a broadening of the prior law, which specified services from only domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.