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LA County Fair Chance Ordinance takes effect today. Here's what you need to know.

Big changes are in store. In an effort to further promote fair hiring practices, Los Angeles County adopted a new Fair Chance Ordinance for the unincorporated areas of the County. This ordinance, which takes effect today,...more

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Los Angeles Publishes “Model Contract” Under Freelance Workers Protections Ordinance

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On August 7, 2024, the City of Los Angeles unveiled its “Model Contract” under the Freelance Workers Protections Ordinance (FWPO). This ordinance, which took effect on July 1, 2023, was designed to bolster protections for...more

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The County of Los Angeles Will Soon Post Notice and Sample Documents to Comply with the County’s Sweeping Fair Chance Ordinance

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Starting after Labor Day, employers with jobs located in the unincorporated areas of the County of Los Angeles, including work-from-home and hybrid positions, must comply with the County’s fair chance hiring ordinance.  The...more

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New Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance Imposes Obligations on Employers

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Starting September 3, 2024, employers must comply with involved new requirements if they wish to consider criminal backgrounds in making hiring or promotional decisions for positions that will perform work in any...more

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Employers Face Onerous Compliance Obligations Under the New Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance

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Effective September 3, 2024, employers with locations or employees (including remote workers) in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County (ULAC) will be subject to a new Fair Chance Ordinance. To say that the new...more

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Citizen Suit Enforcement/Clean Water Act: Environment California Files Judicial Action Against Port of Los Angeles

Environment California (“EC”) filed a July 23rd United States District Court (Central District of California) Clean Water Act citizen suit action against the Port of Los Angeles (“Port”) for alleged violations. See case No....more

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Measure ULA Update: Reported Revenue, Applicability to Foreclosures and Legal Challenges

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In a February Legal Update, we analyzed the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (the “Taxpayer Protection Act” or the “Act”), a statewide California ballot initiative that could potentially repeal the...more

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Preparing Your Business for Los Angeles County’s Recently Passed Fair Work Week Ordinance

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Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted and passed the Fair Work Week Ordinance. It is now set to go into effect July 1, 2025. The ordinance applies to any retailer and grocer in unincorporated LA...more

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Fair Work Week Ordinance: Cruel Summer For LA County Employers

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Are you ready for it? The record-smashing icon, Taylor Swift, may have taken her tour to Europe, but that doesn’t stop new laws from cropping up back home. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed...more

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Los Angeles County Passes Retail Fair Workweek Ordinance for Unincorporated Areas

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Recently, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed the Fair Workweek Ordinance, similar to the ordinance passed by the City of Los Angeles last year. The ordinance takes effect July 1, 2025. Covered Employers The...more

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Superior Court Ruling: Charter Cities Not Subject to SB 9

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On April 24, 2024, a Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled that Senate Bill (SB) 9 does not apply to charter cities because it violates the authority granted to charter cities by the California Constitution to manage their...more

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Unincorporated L.A. County Employers Must Comply With New Rules When Considering Applicants’ Criminal History

In 2018, California’s statewide Fair Chance Act (“FCA”) went into effect, imposing limitations on employers’ consideration of applicants’ criminal records and requiring a fair chance process before a candidate’s offer was...more

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Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Drafts NPDES Permit for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Facilities

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The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has drafted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) facilities. Our Environment, Land Use & Natural...more

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Belatedly Filed Amendment to Petition Challenging a Specific Plan Did Not Relate Back to Premature Challenge Filed Before Specific...

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Petitioner’s challenge to a Specific Plan, which was filed before that plan was adopted, was barred as premature, and its belated attempt to amend its petition after the Specific Plan had been adopted was barred by the...more

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Land Use Matters March 2024 – CEQA Appellate Decisions & Other Legal Developments

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City of Los Angeles - Proposed Citywide Adaptive Reuse Ordinance - In 1999, the city council adopted the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance (ARO) that enabled the conversion of commercial buildings constructed in the downtown area in...more

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LA County Expands California’s “Ban the Box” Effective March 28, 2024

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Since California’s enactment of the Fair Chance Act (“Act”) over six years ago, California’s private and county employers with five or more employees have become well-acquainted with the Act’s general prohibition of employers...more

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Insurance Coverage/Boatyard Operator: Federal Appellate Court Addresses City of Los Angeles Request for Indemnity for Alleged...

The United States Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a March 13th memorandum issues arising out of a boatyard operator’s insurance policies. See City of Los Angeles v. Traverlers Indemnity...more

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County of Los Angeles Enacts a Sweeping Fair Chance Ordinance for the Unincorporated Areas of the County that Far Exceeds Federal...

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In 2016, the City of Los Angeles enacted a detailed fair chance hiring ordinance.  A comprehensive statewide law followed in 2017. Soon, employers with jobs located in the unincorporated areas of the County of Los...more

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Continuing Privacy Headache for Ordering Criminal Background Checks in California

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Companies that hire employees and engage independent contractors in California should brace themselves for an even greater slowdown in background checks that include criminal record searches in Los Angeles County. This will...more

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Los Angeles Faces Potential Repeal of 'Mansion Tax'

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The City of Los Angeles ULA Tax—a new city tax on certain real estate transactions, commonly referred to as the “mansion tax”—may be invalidated through the November 2024 election....more

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Filing Multiple NODs does not Restart Statute of Limitations

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In Guerrero et al v. City of  Los Angeles (January 17, 2024, No. B326033 c/w B327032) ___Cal.App.5th___,  the Second District Court of Appeal held that the project opponents did not timely file their CEQA lawsuit. The...more

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Mayor Signs Executive Directive to Streamline and Accelerate Housing Production in Los Angeles

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On Nov. 8, 2023, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed Executive Directive No. 7, which aims to streamline and accelerate housing production in Los Angeles....more

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Second District Addresses CEQA’s Class 32 Infill Exemption Criteria

In it’s recent decision in United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles v. City of Los Angeles (2023) ___ Cal.App.5th ___, the Second District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment voiding the City of Los Angeles’s reliance on the CEQA...more

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The City of Los Angeles Imposes New Requirements for the Use of Independent Contractors

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Effective July 1, 2023, the Freelance Worker Protections Ordinance of the City of Los Angeles became effective, imposing new requirements on the use of independent contractors and freelance workers together with new penalties...more

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Los Angeles’ New Requirements For Work With Independent Contractors

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California has gone to great lengths to limit independent contractor relationships and recently, the City of Los Angeles, created additional hurdles to the hiring and use of independent contractors or freelance workers. The...more

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