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WHAT’S NEW IN 2024
NON-COMPETE NO NOS
Existing Business and Professions Code 16600 prohibits California employers from having their employees sign non-compete clauses that restrain them from engaging in lawful professions, trades or businesses.
The legislature has now created these additional prohibitions:
WHAT’S NEW IN 2024
REPRODUCTIVE LOSS LEAVE
Senate Bill (SB) 848, effective January 1, 2024, requires such employers to provide a separate form of leave for up to five days of consecutive or non-consecutive leave following a “reproductive loss event,” such as a failed adoption, failed surrogacy, miscarriage, stillbirth, or an unsuccessful assisted reproduction (i.e., an unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or embryo transfer). Both parents are eligible for this leave.
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HELPING CRIMINALS BACK INTO SOCIETY
Employer Moraga-Orinda Fire Protection District has agreed with the California Civil Rights Department to pay $100,000 to settle an alleged violation of the Fair Chance Act.
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FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVES POLICY
California employers with five employees or more must provide eligible workers with unpaid job-protected family and medical leave under the California Family Rights Act(CFRA). Employers with 50 or more employees must also comply with the corresponding federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
KOFI
Thank you, readers, for the many encouraging responses to pieces on recent West African travel and our progress with the Applied Scholastics African Literacy Campaign (3/23 – 4/3/23). Letter from Liberia (March 24, 2023) and The Wrong Thing to Do: Nothing(March 25, 2023) More from those days? Sure, my pleasure. …
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PAYDAYS AND DEDUCTIONS POLICY
California employers must schedule either weekly, biweekly, or semimonthly (minimum two/month) payrolls. All wages must be paid within seven calendar days following the close of the payroll period. Temporary employees must usually be paid weekly (or daily for daily assignments).
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BATHROOM DISCRIMINATION
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), charged with enforcing federal protections against workplace disability discrimination, has sued WalMart in North Carolina for allegedly declining to provide reasonable accommodation and improperly terminating a Crohn’s disease-afflicted employee.
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WHO’S NEXT?
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the federal Department of Labor has published a 2022 Southern California Garment Worker Survey after random investigations of 50 area contractors. The results were abysmal:
THE WRONG THING TO DO: NOTHING
It’s the pro bono work that brings the greatest compensation: The light in the eyes, hope rekindled, the dream of creating a future worth living. From last week’s Letter from Liberia, the journey leads to Saturday, March 25, 2023.
What’s New In 2023
REPORTING PAYROLL PROFILES
As previously reported, effective January 1, 2023, Senate Bill (SB) 1162 requires California employers of 100 or more employees and/or 100 or more workers hired through labor contractors (i.e., staffing or temp agencies) to report annual pay and hours-worked data by job category, sex, race, and ethnicity to the Civil Rights Department (CRD) by the second Wednesday of every May (moved from the prior annual reporting date of March).