In light of the tight labor market, many employers are offering employees the opportunity to increase their income with commission-based pay. There is no fixed formula on commission pay. It can be based upon a percentage of a sale, a dollar amount ...
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How California Employers Have Handled Competition in the Absence of Non-Compete Agreements
Updated February 15, 2023
And Why the Rest of the Nation May Soon Follow California’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements
As the federal government considers limiting or prohibiting employee noncompetition agreements, employers doing business in ...
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DIR Releases FAQs Regarding New Pay Transparency Law
The California Department of Industrial Relations recently published FAQs with interpretive guidance on the state’s new pay transparency law. As we detailed in our October legal update, the new pay transparency law went into effect on January 1, ...
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Employers, Don’t Give Your Employees Grief Over Taking Bereavement Leave
Key Provisions
Effective January 1, 2023, California employers with five or more employees will be required to provide up to five days of bereavement leave to employees who have worked at least 30 days prior to the start of the leave. The ...
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Family Expanded to “Designated Person” Under CFRA
On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1041 into law. Beginning January 1, 2023, the definition of a “family member” under the California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) and California’s Healthy Workplaces Healthy Families Act ...
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Testing for Off-the-Clock Marijuana Use Up in Smoke?
On September 18, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2188 into law, which prohibits employers from taking any adverse employment action against an employee because of their off-duty marijuana use. In enacting AB 2188, California becomes the latest ...
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New California Law Requires Employers to Provide Pay Information in Job Postings and to Current Employees Upon Request
On September 27, 2022, Governor Newsom signed the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act into law. SB 1162 is the latest in a series of laws passed in Colorado, Washington, and New York City that mandates pay transparency in an effort to combat gender ...
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Third Time’s the Charm? Cal/OSHA Approves Third Adoption of COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard
Cal/OSHA has revised and readopted its COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the third time. The updated ETS went into effect on May 7, 2022 and remains in effect through December 31, 2022, at which time Cal/OSHA is expected to ...
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