NLRB Issues Clarifications Regarding Surreptitious Recor... The National Labor Relations Board recently prepared two memoranda, one from its General Counsel and one from the Division of Advice, at...
Workers’ Rights Enforcement Grant Money Distributed to P... August 15, 2025 Sixteen prosecutors’ offices across California are set to share $8.55 million in grant money from the California Labor C...
Legislative Update: Enforcement of Tips and Gratuities (... This is the time of year when we begin to see the California Governor sign a variety of bills that have made their way to his desk. In a...
Employer Alert: Minimum Wage Increase effective January ... In a letter to California legislators, the Director of the Department of Finance provided his annual minimum wage calculation, concludin...
Employer Alert: New Crime Victims’ Leave Notices Are Av... We previously discussed California’s new Crime Victims’ Leave law enacted last year as Assembly Bill 2499. The measure, which went into ...
Employer Notice: California laws protect workers’ immigr... In a recent Press Release from the California Labor Commissioner, employers were dealt several reminders about California’s labor laws, ...
Refresher course 101: Do you know how to handle a non-wo... Sometimes it is worth getting a reminder about certain situations that we hope will never happen at work, but if they do, swift action i...
PAGA Claims Now Allowed for Sick Leave Law Violations… B... Employees now have an added weapon in their arsenal in claiming violations against their employers. Since 2014, the mandatory sick leave...
Revisiting the Topic of Workplace AccommodationsIn perusing the latest legal news, you may have glossed over a recent 9 th Circuit decision involving government religious accommodation...
Pay Data Reporting Deferral Now Available for Some EmployersAs we recently reported, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) issued its up-to-date FAQs for employers’ Pay Data Reporting requi...
CDPH & Cal/OSHA UPDATES TO COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER ... March 16, 2023 California’s COVID-19 state of emergency came to an end on February 28, 2023. Days later, the Department of Public Health...
CAL/OSHA: CLARIFIES MEANING OF “AS CLOSE AS PRACTICABLE”... March 2, 2023 For agricultural employers, the latest decision from the Department of Industrial Relations’ Occupational Safety and Healt...