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Lisa V. Ryan / February 15, 2023

How California Employers Have Handled Competition in the Absence of Non-Compete Agreements

Personnel Policies

Updated February 15, 2023 And Why the Rest of the Nation May Soon Follow California’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements As the federal government considers limiting or prohibiting employee noncompetition agreements, employers doing business in ...
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Filed Under: Personnel Policies

Barbara A. Cotter, Partner / January 11, 2023

New Year – New PAGA Strategies

Employment Litigation

More than 5,000 California employers are sued each year for civil penalties under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”). This year promises to be no exception. Already, the state has received notice of hundreds of intended ...
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Filed Under: Employment Litigation

Alexis Gabrielson / January 10, 2023

DIR Releases FAQs Regarding New Pay Transparency Law

Personnel Policies

The California Department of Industrial Relations recently published FAQs with interpretive guidance on the state’s new pay transparency law. As we detailed in our October legal update, the new pay transparency law went into effect on January 1, ...
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Carrie E. Bushman / December 12, 2022

Employers, Don’t Give Your Employees Grief Over Taking Bereavement Leave

Personnel Policies

Key Provisions Effective January 1, 2023, California employers with five or more employees will be required to provide up to five days of bereavement leave to employees who have worked at least 30 days prior to the start of the leave. The ...
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Carrie E. Bushman / December 12, 2022

Time May Be Running Out on Employer Rounding Practices

Wage and Hour

Historically, California courts have upheld the legality of time rounding (where, for example, actual time punches are rounded backwards or forwards to the nearest quarter hour) as long as, overall, the rounding policy/practice is neutral on its face ...
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Brian D. Bertossa / November 28, 2022

California Broadens Definition of “Public Works” to Cover On-Hauling of Certain Materials

Prevailing Wage

Existing law requires that all workers employed on public works projects shall be paid the general prevailing rate of per diem wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. Assembly Bill 1851 On September 29, ...
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Daniel F. C. Kozieja / November 28, 2022

Family Expanded to “Designated Person” Under CFRA

Personnel Policies

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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Lisa V. Ryan / November 2, 2022

Must Employers Pay When Employees Claim They’re Too Busy for Rest Breaks?

Employment Litigation

Originally published for HR California Virtually all California employers and their employees are aware of workers’ rights to take paid rest breaks during a typical shift — that all nonexempt employees whose total daily work time is at least ...
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Filed Under: Employment Litigation

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