“Knowledge is power” is cliché, but true.
California heads the nation in regulating employee relations. While workplace laws usually arise to police the few employers crossing the line into worker exploitation, they subject the vast bulk of well-intentioned businesses to thousands of technical rules requiring close attention.
In today’s well-attended webinar (Annual Virtual Seminar for Employers ), we emphasized that current, clearly stated workplace policies are an employer’s frontline protections against Labor Code claims.
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has penalized Van Nuys’ Parkwood Landscape Maintenance $276,425 for deliberately and knowingly violating state heat illness prevention regulations.
We provide this 1/9/25 Cal/OSHA public notice:
Advisory – Release Number: 2025-06
January 9, 2025
Wildfire Smoke Alert: Cal/OSHA urges employers to protect workers from unhealthy air in Los Angeles County.
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has penalized…
The Internal Revenue Service has announced its 2025 optional standard mileage reimbursement rate for employee business use of a personal vehicle, effective January 1, 2025, up from 67 to 70 cents/mile.