The California legislature has passed and Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a number of bills that address wage and hour practices and other issues affecting California employers. All bills take effect January 1, 2022, unless...more
10/22/2021
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
California Family Rights Act (CFRA) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Delivery Drivers ,
Disclosure ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Governor Newsom ,
Grand Theft ,
Independent Contractors ,
Manufacturers ,
Non-Disparagement Provisions ,
OSHA ,
Piece-Rate Pay ,
Quotas ,
Restaurant Industry ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tipped Employees ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Theft ,
Warehouses ,
Workplace Harassment Guidance ,
Workplace Safety
With President Biden charting a fundamentally different course in labor relations, employers should monitor developments taking place. In less than three weeks, Washington saw President Biden’s firing of National Labor...more
The California Assembly has passed a bill that would require workers to be classified as employees if the employer exerts control over how the workers perform their tasks or if their work is part of the employer’s regular...more
Whether California’s recently adopted “ABC” test, used in the employee-versus-independent contractor analysis in cases involving California’s wage orders, must be applied retroactively should be decided by the California...more
California employers were dealt another setback in the responding to claims of misclassification of independent contractor status for violations of the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order (“IWC Wage Orders”). Noting...more
As if the current legal environment for employers and their insurance carriers was not sufficiently challenging, state legislatures are considering bills, inter alia, to expand the definition of a hostile work environment, to...more