This is misleading. All employees got 2.5 months of salary. Do you want your 2-3 weeks of PTO or would rather take 10 weeks of paid leave? Legit fake news.
Bob gets 2.5 months of salary. Alice also gets 2.5 months of salary. But Alice hasn't taken any time off for the past year, while Bob went on vacation and depleted his PTO budget. Alice is a sucker, Bob is a hustler. Fuck Alice, right?
Employees outside of California who want the benefits of California law should lobby their State government to adopt similar rules.