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California Announces 2024 Substantial Increase in Computer Professional Exemption Compensation Rate

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

Governor Newsom Issues Executive Order on Use, Procurement, and Development of Generative AI

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 Announces Substantial Increase in Compensation Rate for Computer Professional Exemption in 2023

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

California Law Requires Pay Range Disclosures on Job Postings and Mandates Pay Data Reporting

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 Employers: New Law Limits NDAs in Settlement & Severance Agreements

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 Announces 2022 Increase in Compensation Rate for Computer Professional Exemption

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

California Announces 2021 Increase in Compensation Rate for Computer Professional Exemption

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

California Requires Employers to Submit Pay Data Report

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

California’s New Sick Leave Law Provides Supplemental Coverage for Employees Affected by COVID-19

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

California Court of Appeal Issues First Opinion Addressing ‘Unlimited’ Paid Vacation Policies

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

California Announces 2020 Compensation Rate for Computer Professional Exemption

As of January 1, 2020, California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet new salary thresholds....more

California Introduces New Compensation Rate for Computer Professional Exemption

As of January 1, 2019, California employers must ensure that compensation rates meet new salary thresholds for computer professionals....more

New Compensation Rate for California Computer Professional Exemption in 2018

As of January 1, 2018, California employers must ensure that compensation rates meet new salary thresholds for computer professionals....more

Third Circuit Affirms Priority of NRC Public Health and Safety Requirements

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

Reminder: New California Employment Regulations Go into Effect July 1

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

San Jose Ordinance: Offer Hours to Existing Employees before Hiring New Workers

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

California Computer Professional Salary Requirement to Increase to $88,318.55

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

San Francisco Enacts Paid Parental Leave Law and California Increases Minimum Wage

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

Amended California FEHA Regulations (Effective April 1, 2016)

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

New California Harassment Policy Requirements, Effective April 1

Amended FEHA regulations cover a wide range of compliance topics and may require California employers to update their harassment and discrimination policies....more

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