On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1041 into law. Beginning January 1, 2023, the definition of a “family member” under the California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) and California’s Healthy Workplaces Healthy Families Act ...
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Personnel Policies
Testing for Off-the-Clock Marijuana Use Up in Smoke?
On September 18, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2188 into law, which prohibits employers from taking any adverse employment action against an employee because of their off-duty marijuana use. In enacting AB 2188, California becomes the latest ...
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New California Law Requires Employers to Provide Pay Information in Job Postings and to Current Employees Upon Request
On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act into law. SB 1162 is the latest in a series of laws passed in Colorado, Washington, and New York City that mandates pay transparency in an effort to combat gender ...
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Third Time’s the Charm? Cal/OSHA Approves Third Adoption of COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
Cal/OSHA has revised and readopted its COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the third time. The updated ETS went into effect on May 7, 2022 and remains in effect through December 31, 2022, at which time Cal/OSHA is expected to ...
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Customer’s Solicitation of Male Manicurist Enough to Establish Hostile Work Environment
Originally published for HR California
A recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision handed an employer a partial win — for discrimination, but not harassment. In this case, plaintiff Vincent Fried, a manicurist in a salon at the Wynn Las Vegas ...
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2022 COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave
Governor Newson is expected to sign another COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave bill in early February requiring employers to provide additional paid sick leave retroactively to January 1, 2022. Covered employers under the new law will be ...
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Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – 2022 Update
Employers Are Required To Notify All CA Employees That They May Be Eligible For Federal and CA EITC
Since 2008, California employers have been required to notify their California-based employees that they may be eligible for the federal and the ...
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New Year Brings New Changes to Cal/OSHA COVID Regulations
On December 16, 2021, Cal/OSHA’s Standards Board voted to revise its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) for the second time. The 2nd Revised ETS will go into effect January 14, 2022. More information is available in Cal/OSHA’s “What ...
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