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- Lessening Liability for Unpaid Overtime Pay Claims: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
- Insights & Updates — Minimum Wage and Overtime
- Insights & Updates – Independent Contractor Changes
- All Employers May Be Impacted by President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy
- Insights & Updates—National Labor Relations Board & PRO Act Legislation
- Five Minute Matters – Paid Leave
- Illinois Freedom to Work Act Amendments Aim to Reshape Employee Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreements
- California Return to Work: Finally, New Revisions to the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards
- Texas Law Expands Liability for Sexual Harassment
- MIOSHA Issues Revised Emergency Rules Governing Return To Work
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California Return to Work: Finally, New Revisions to the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards
The California state rules, which became effective June 15, 2021 (California’s “reopening”), eliminate capacity restrictions and social distancing and also permit fully vaccinated individuals to stop wearing masks in most situations. Read More ›
Is Wi-Fi Sickness a Disability? California Appellate Court Holds That It Is Under FEHA
Is Wi-Fi sickness a disability? The California Court of Appeal just said it is in Brown v. Los Angeles Unified School District (2d Dist., Div. Eight), Case No. B294240. In a case that tests the limits of California’s liberal pleading standard, the appellate court green-lighted a claim of a woman who asserted a disability of “electromagnetic hypersensitivity,” or, as the concurring justice put it, “Wi-Fi sickness.” Read More ›
California Employment Law Alert: New Employment Laws Effective On or Before January 1, 2021
The emergence of COVID-19 has changed the workplace as we once knew it. California employers need to be prepared for unprecedented compliance challenges in recent legislation related to the ongoing pandemic, expanding leave protections, wage and hour compliance risks, and much more. Employers will need to review and adapt their policies and procedures in order to keep up in the coming year with California’s ever-changing employment laws. Read More ›
California Expands Workplace Protections Related to COVID-19 by Enacting Two Statutes Regarding Notice Requirements and Workers’ Compensation Coverage
On September 17, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills that expanded worker protections related to COVID-19. AB 685 imposes reporting requirements related to when employees are exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace. SB 1159 codifies Governor Newsom’s Executive Order providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage to employees who test positive for COVID-19 in connection with their employment between March 19 and July 5, 2020, and creating a new framework for workers’ compensation coverage for employees who test positive for COVID-19 after July 5, 2020. Read More ›
California Expands Coronavirus Paid Sick Leave with the Enactment of AB 1867
The federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) generally requires employers with fewer than 500 employees to provide up to 80 hours of paid sick leave to eligible employees for qualifying reasons related to COVID-19. On September 9, 2020, California’s Governor Newsom signed AB 1867. This law expands access to paid sick leave (“Coronavirus PSL”) to California workers employed by entities with 500 or more employees in the United States. Read More ›
AB 5 Is Making Waves in California by Changing the Way Businesses Classify Workers
AB 5 is making waves in California by changing the way companies will classify workers. AB 5 codifies the ABC test adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.4th 903 (“Dynamex”). In Dynamex, the Court held that for violations of California’s wage orders, a worker is presumed to be an employee, unless the business proves the following: Read More ›