AB 51 : Existing law imposes various restrictions on employers with respect to contracts and applications for employment. A violation of those restrictions is a misdemeanor. Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is under the direction of...
SB 778: The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer’s knowledge. Under existing law, the Department of...
AB 9: Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes specified employment and housing practices unlawful, including discrimination against or harassment of employees and tenants, among others. Existing law authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged...
AB 5: Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee...
SB 3: Under existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, an employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of...
Many employers have already restricted non-essential work-related travel at this time out of an abundance of caution. However, employees in positions in which travel is an essential function of the job may nonetheless be required to continue performing their duties....
The law goes into effect on April 2, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2020. It applies to all employers with 500 employees or less. Employees with 30 days of employment are eligible for benefits. Emergency FMLA – Job-protected family leave...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that causes symptoms ranging from fever, cough, and shortness of breath to pneumonia, kidney failure, and death. Symptoms may appear between 2 and 14 days after exposure, although some infected individuals may be asymptomatic....
SB 1 enacted by Illinois will phase minimum wage increase to $15 by 2025. It covers youth wage workers under the age of 18 and it will gradually increase to $14 by 2025. Small employers have some tax credit program to...