While the Federal Trade Commission’s new noncompete ban is facing challenges on multiple fronts, Washington State has enacted its own new restriction on noncompetes. Effective June 6, 2024, employers must comply with the new...more
Washington state recently enacted several laws expanding protections for employees. Washington employers should be aware that these laws have significant implications in the workplace, including restrictions on employers’...more
Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed SB 616, which amends California’s Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 by increasing the amount of paid sick leave employers must provide to eligible California employees....more
The city council of Seattle recently added caste as a protected class to the city’s anti-discrimination laws. In doing so, Seattle becomes the first US jurisdiction to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to...more
The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) provided much-anticipated guidance on Washington’s new job posting requirements. Effective January 1, 2023, employers in Washington must include pay ranges and a...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
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 152 into law on September 29, extending California’s 2022 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law to December 31, 2022. The bill also creates a program that will...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
The California State Legislature Senate Bill 114, signed by Governor Newsom on February 9, requires employers with 26 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave for qualifying COVID-19 related...more
The California State Legislature Assembly Bill 84, introduced on February 2, proposes to require employers with 26 or more employees to provide up to 80 hours of supplemental paid sick leave for qualifying COVID-19 related...more
On May 18, 2021, Santa Clara County issued the Order of the Health Officer of the County of Santa Clara to Protect the Community from COVID-19, which became effective on May 19, 2021. Most notably, the order requires...more
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
Following Los Angeles’s lead, San Francisco and San Jose have enacted ordinances requiring certain businesses to provide additional paid leave benefits to employees for coronavirus (COVID-19)-related reasons. These benefits...more
Assembly Bill 5, signed into law on September 18, generally codifies Dynamex and establishes difficult standards for classifying workers as independent contractors. Employers should review their independent contractor...more
In Troester v. Starbucks Corp., the California Supreme Court held that the Fair Labor Standards Act’s de minimis doctrine does not apply to wage claims under California law. However, the court left open the question of...more