California employers must ensure that compensation rates for exempt computer professionals meet updated salary thresholds, as of January 1, 2024.
The minimum wage thresholds for the California computer professional...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new executive order (EO) on September 6 regarding the use, procurement, and development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by California state agencies and employees. The...more
California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet new salary thresholds, effective January 1, 2023. As inflation continues to rise, so too have the minimum wage thresholds for the...more
Employers in California must include pay ranges in all job advertisements effective January 1, 2023, and must submit comprehensive pay data for employees and subcontractors to the California Civil Rights Department starting...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom on October 7 signed Senate Bill 331, which will prohibit employers from (1) including in a settlement agreement a clause that restricts an employee’s right to disclose information about...more
California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet updated salary thresholds, as of January 1, 2022. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) issued a memo on October 18,...more
10/19/2021
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Employer Liability Issues ,
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Wage and Hour
As of January 1, 2021, California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet the updated salary thresholds.
In a memo issued on October 16, 2020 the California Department of Industrial...more
10/19/2020
/ Compensation & Benefits ,
Computer Programmers ,
Consumer Price Index ,
Department of Industrial Relations ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Labor Regulations ,
Salaried Employees ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 973 on September 30, which requires private employers in California to submit an annual Pay Data Report to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), with the first report...more
10/12/2020
/ Data Collection ,
DFEH ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1867 on September 9, requiring private employers with 500 or more employees nationwide to provide California employees with paid sick leave for coronavirus...more
The court held in an April 1 ruling that an employer’s purported nonaccrual, “unlimited” paid vacation policy violated California Law, but left many questions unsettled....more
As of January 1, 2020, California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet new salary thresholds....more
As of January 1, 2019, California employers must ensure that compensation rates meet new salary thresholds for computer professionals....more
As of January 1, 2018, California employers must ensure that compensation rates meet new salary thresholds for computer professionals....more
Court rules that the ADA does not create a loophole to NRC fitness-for-duty and security regulations.
On August 15, for the first time, a US court of appeals ruled that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s)...more
Employers with employees in California should review policies and practices regarding consideration of criminal history in employment decisions as well as protections on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, and...more
On November 8, over 63% of San Jose voters approved a first-of-its-kind ordinance that requires San Jose employers to offer additional hours of work to qualified existing employees before hiring new employees, subcontractors,...more
Employers of California computer professionals must ensure compensation rates meet new salary thresholds that go into effect January 1, 2017.
In addition to reviewing compensation to ensure compliance with upcoming...more
10/6/2016
/ Consumer Price Index ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Final Rules ,
Labor Code ,
Minimum Salary ,
Non-Exempt Employees ,
Over-Time ,
Standard Duties Test ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
San Francisco will become the first US city to enact a mandatory fully paid parental leave for employees, and California will increase its statewide minimum wage to $15.00 per hour.
San Francisco Paid Parental Leave...more
All employers with employees in California should carefully review harassment, discrimination, and retaliation policies and practices to ensure compliance with amended FEHA regulations.
New Requirements for a Written...more
3/22/2016
/ Complaint Procedures ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
FEHA ,
Harassment ,
Notice Requirements ,
Personal Liability ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Protected Class ,
Retaliation ,
Training Requirements
Amended FEHA regulations cover a wide range of compliance topics and may require California employers to update their harassment and discrimination policies....more