Updated FAQs Provide Guidance about Reporting Requirements
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) updated its FAQs on employers’ obligations to report workforce information to the state. The recently enacted Senate Bill 1162 modified ...
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Updates
Keeping Your Employees Cool During the Hot Summer Months
As temperatures soar this summer, Cal/OSHA safety inspectors will be descending upon work sites throughout California to determine whether employers are complying with heat procedures. To ensure better preparedness, it is recommended that employers ...
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DOL Issues Guidance Regarding FMLA Leave and Holidays Just in Time for Summer
Just in time for summer, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued an opinion letter explaining how to calculate the amount of leave used when an employee takes leave under the federal Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) during a week ...
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Holiday Pay: When Must Employers Pay for Holidays?
As California continues to expand its list of “recognized” holidays with the addition of Genocide Remembrance Day, Juneteenth, and Native American Day, many employers are left asking what rules they must follow regarding holiday pay? There are many ...
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Keep Employee Compensation Simple
Entrepreneurship often requires innovative thinking and experimentation, and success often turns upon finding creative solutions. However, employee compensation is not the proper place for experimentation and creativity. Good-hearted efforts to ...
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Best Practices for Responding to Personnel Record Requests
Updated May 1, 2023
Under California’s Labor Code, current and former employees have the right to inspect and receive their personnel files. We have previously provided general best practices for responding to such requests. This update will ...
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Leaving Work to Avoid Stress Found Not to Be a Reasonable Accommodation
Originally published for HR California
In a pro-employer decision that provides guidance in responding to employees’ request for accommodations, a California court aptly noted that such requests need not excuse an employee from performing the ...
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New Rules Govern Hiring and Training of Apprentices on Public Works
Contractors should take note of regulatory changes governing employer obligations on public works construction. The state agency which regulates apprenticeship training in California, the California Apprenticeship Council or “CAC,” adopted rules ...
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