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EMPLOYERS’ HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE
Employers planning end-of-the-year holiday parties should maintain sensible guidelines to carry off a safe and successful gathering. Management must ensure the event acknowledges production and promotes morale without becoming a fertile ground for harassment incidents or worse.
FAIR WARNING
The California Fair Chance Act (the Act) seeks to enable job applicants with criminal histories to obtain gainful employment. Under the Act, employers with five or more on payroll cannot obtain criminal background information until after extending a conditional offer of employment.
NEW YEAR, NEW LEAF
With the blank slate of a coming new year come the resolutions. No matter the size of an operation, making sure a business has an adequate and up-to-date employee policy manual should be high on the list.
WHAT’S NEW IN 2022 THE DOCTOR IS IN
California Labor Code section 515.6 exempts certain licensed physicians and surgeons from overtime compensation upon receipt of specified minimum hourly compensation.
WHAT’S NEW IN 2022
CALIFORNIA MINIMUM WAGE RATE INCREASES FOR JANUARY 1, 2022
On January 1, 2022, California minimum wages will increase as mandated by Senate Bill (SB) 3: $15.00/hour for employers with 26 or more; $14.00/hour for those with 25 or fewer employees; See California’s Gradual Increases in Minimum Wage, to Reach $15.00 Per Hour by January 1, 2022 (April 20, 2016).
NATIONWIDE MANDATORY WORKPLACE VAX RULES ARE ON HOLD
On November 5, 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)issued Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) implementing the President’s ordered mandatory vaccinate-or-test rules. The ETS directs all employers with 100+ on payroll to require worker vaccination or weekly testing.
MANDATORY SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION TRAINING
Every two years, California employers with five or more on payroll (all workers, nationwide) have to provide at least two hours of classroom or other effective interactive sexual harassment protection training to all California supervisory employees and at least one hour of such training to all nonsupervisory employees in California. Employers must include remotely working employees.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN
Thanks to the strong support of our clients and colleagues, Bowles Law is Pasadena Weekly’s “Best” for 2021, our third year running. We strive to continue delivery of capable services in the often contentious arena of personnel management.
WHAT’S NEW IN 2022
NERD PAY
California Labor Code section 515.5 exempts certain computer software professionals from overtime compensation upon receipt of specified minimum compensation.
RELIGION AND MANDATORY WORKPLACE VACCINATION
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has again expanded its pandemic guidelines, this time to address the potential conflict between mandatory workplace COVID vaccination policies and employee religious belief and practice.