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Next in our series, “New Year, New Laws for California Employers,” we take a look at new protections given to Religious Dress and Grooming and Breastfeeding under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.  Prepared by  Mark Terman, partner in the Los Angeles office, this series will take a look at some of the significant new regulations affecting private employers doing business in California. … [Read more...] about New Year, New Laws for California Employers – Religious Dress and Grooming Protected and Breastfeeding Further Protected

The penalty for violating the law ranges from $5,000 to $15,000 per violation, or $10,000 to $25,000 when a repeated pattern or practice of violations is found. In addition, an employer could be forced to post a scarlet letter (notice of violation) on its website or in a public area at its business for one year. Joint and several liability can be assigned to individuals who knowingly advise an employer to misclassify an individual as an independent contractor to avoid employee status. The exceptions are employees providing the employer advice internally and advice from legal counsel. … [Read more...] about Watch Out for New Employment Laws in California

California Paid Sick Leave Law Clarified. California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (the Act) was passed into law in 2014. The Act requires employers, regardless of size, to provide employees with at least three days or 24 hours of paid sick leave based on an accrual or a front-load method. Assembly Bill 304 clarifies several ambiguities in the law, including the Act’s impact on existing paid time off policies (which combine vacation and sick pay leaves), the appropriate way to calculate the sick leave rate, and the Act’s accrual and reinstatement provisions. … [Read more...] about New Workplace Laws Confronting California Employers in 2016

Effective January 1, 2018, California will be the next jurisdiction to implement statewide “ban the box” legislation.  On October 14, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 1008, which prohibits pre-offer inquiries regarding applicants’ conviction histories and regulates employers in their decisions to deny employment to an applicant based on his/her conviction history.  For more details regarding this important law, please see our earlier post.  … [Read more...] about Governor Brown Has Signed ‘Ban the Box’ Legislation into Law for California

Workers' Compensation: The posting and notice requirements were amended in 2010 to require all employers using Managed Professional Networks (MPNs) to provide treatment for workers' compensation claims to give employees information regarding the MPN(s) being used. Therefore, in addition to the required workers' compensation poster ("Notice to Employees – Injuries Caused by Work") that employers must display, they must also display additional information about the MPN(s). Further, any pamphlet distributed by the employer regarding workers' compensation must also include information regarding the employer's MPN(s).  … [Read more...] about New Year, New Posters, New Laws: Labor & Employment Law Updates