Effective July 1, 2024, all California employers (with a few exceptions) – regardless of industry – are required to: (1) have a written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan (“WVPP”), (2) train employees on the WVPP, workplace...more
4/17/2024
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California ,
Employee Training ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Labor Reform ,
New Regulations ,
State Labor Laws ,
Statutory Deadlines ,
Workplace Safety ,
Workplace Violence
As most California employers are aware, a new workplace violence law (SB 553) requires California employers to develop and implement a written, Workplace Violence Prevention Plan and conduct training by July 1, 2024. The new...more
4/10/2024
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Cal-OSHA ,
California ,
Employee Training ,
Recording Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Training Requirements ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Violence ,
Workplace Violence Prevention Programs
As we enter 2024, CDF has designed a webinar that aims to equip California employers with essential knowledge regarding the new marijuana drug testing rules and how to update personnel testing, policies, and procedures to...more
12/29/2023
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Best Practices ,
California ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Drug Testing ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Marijuana ,
New Rules ,
Notice Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Webinars
As we hopefully continue to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some things we hope to leave behind, but other, formerly “temporary” aspects of the pandemic appear to be taking more permanent root. Chief among these...more
1/9/2023
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California ,
Confidential Information ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employment Policies ,
Former Employee ,
Job Duties ,
Mental Health ,
Proprietary Information ,
Remote Working ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars
Many workplaces allow employees to work from home. However, often in those situations, the employer really does not know from where the employee is working. Recently, one of our firm’s small business clients, based in an...more
As COVID-19 variants work their way through the Greek alphabet, California employers have new CDC guidelines, new Cal-OSHA and CDPH requirements, new decisions to make with respect to vaccine and testing mandates, and when...more
1/11/2022
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Cal-OSHA ,
CDPH ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Exemptions ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Guidance ,
New Regulations ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Webinars
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare industry and presented a host of legal and practical obstacles to the ability to deliver patient care. During this panel discussion, CDF attorneys, in-house counsel and...more
9/27/2021
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Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employment Policies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Leave of Absence ,
Physicians ,
Remote Working ,
Vaccinations ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
With the rise of multiple COVID variants, FDA approval of at least one vaccine, and now the federal government requiring that private employers mandate vaccinations, COVID-19 continues to infect California employers with a...more
9/13/2021
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Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Employment Policies ,
Exemptions ,
Masks ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Return-to-Work Agreements ,
Social Distancing ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
CDF Labor Law has designed a series of complimentary webinars on employment-related topics specifically designed for our friends and colleagues in the healthcare industry. CDF’s Healthcare Education Week will run October 4-8,...more
9/7/2021
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Cal-OSHA ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Diversity ,
Employee Retention ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Litigation ,
Employment Policies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Internal Investigations ,
Labor Regulations ,
Misclassification ,
NLRB ,
Off-The-Clock ,
Over-Time ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Remote Working ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
Social Justice Issues ,
Time-Off Policies ,
Unions ,
Unpaid Wages ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety
After six years of litigation, a victory is etched in stone after the California Supreme Court denied review of a Court of Appeal decision that affirmed an arbitration award issued in favor of the employer in a hard-fought...more
9/3/2021
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Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
FEHA ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hostile Environment ,
Labor Code ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Retaliation ,
Sexual Harassment
Last week a California Employer secured a victory when the California Court of Appeal held that the employer’s general California choice-of-law provision in its employment agreement did not entitle the employee to pursue...more
8/25/2021
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Choice-of-Law ,
Class Action ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Labor Code ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Unpaid Wages ,
Wage and Hour
Last Friday, Cal-OSHA published its revised, proposed COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”). These rules and regulations were promulgated primarily to take into account the impact of vaccinations in our state. They...more
It is now more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are still looming issues on which California employers must continue to focus in order to maintain compliance and to avoid administrative actions and potential...more
5/7/2021
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Continuing Legal Education ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Health and Safety ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Remote Working ,
Return-to-Work Agreements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Safety