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Employers must regularly navigate the challenges of handling complaints brought by employees in the workplace. While many complaints relate to daily nuisances involving coworker or customer interactions, ...
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Updates
Ring in the New Year with Handbook Updates for 2024!
As we approach the end of the year, employers are busy putting plans in place for 2024. A key priority that should not be neglected as businesses prepare to commence the new year is updating their employee handbooks to ensure compliance with new laws ...
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SB 553 Law Requires Implementation of Workplace Violence Prevention Measures
Effective July 1, 2024, Senate Bill 553 requires employers with at least one employee to take several steps to prevent workplace violence, including implementing a written workplace violence prevention plan, providing training on the plan, and ...
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Beginning 2024, Employers Will Be Required to Provide 40 Hours (or 5 Days) of Paid Sick Leave to All Employees
An overview of the Paid Sick Leave Law
In 2014, California enacted the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act, also known as the Paid Sick Leave Law (PSLL). The PSLL covers all employers in the State of California as well as all full-time, ...
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Use of Criminal History Information in Employment Decisions Has Become More Difficult Due to Recent Changes to California’s Background Check Law
In 2018, California enacted the Fair Chance Act (“FCA”), also known as the “ban-the-box” law, which added the FCA to California’s employment anti-discrimination statute, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), which is enforced by the Civil ...
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Supreme Court Expands Liability Under the Fair Employment and Housing Act to Third-Party Vendors
In an unprecedented decision issued last month, the Supreme Court ruled in Kristina Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group, et al. that third-party vendors, who handle labor and employment issues for an employer, can be independently sued as ...
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Annual Handbook Review Should Address New NLRB Decision Limiting Codes of Conduct
Most employers utilize handbooks to familiarize employees with basic workplace rules and procedures. Because of the ongoing changes in California’s labor and employment laws, annual handbook reviews are typically required to prevent a handbook from ...
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EEOC Publishes New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Regulations
On August 7, 2023, the EEOC proposed new regulations for implementing the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The PWFA was enacted in 2022 and went into effect on June 27th of this year. The law requires employers to make changes to working ...
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