Archive for the ‘Termination, Discipline’ Category
OAKLAND MINIMUM WAGE ESCALATES TO $12.25
Rate Effective March 2, 2015 Starting March 2, 2015, employers (regardless of where located) must pay wages of at least $12.25 per hour to each employee who performs work within Oakland, California (including part-time employees). This minimum wage requirement, pursuant to Measure FF and set forth in Oakland Municipal Code section 53.92.020, applies to any […]
CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL VIOLENCE TO GET REGULATORY INJECTION
Health Care Worker Fatality Rate Has Been Twice for All Other Industries Combined New Labor Code section 6401.8 requires state government, no later than July 1, 2016, to adopt required standards for acute general care and acute psychiatric hospitals plans to prevent workplace violence. The new statute is from Senate Bill (SB) 1299, approved by […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2015 EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAFFING AGENCY LABOR VIOLATIONS
Business Must Carefully Balance the Risks Effective January 1, 2015, California Assembly Bill 1897 makes employers that hire workers from staffing agencies automatically liable for wages and workers’ compensation violations by the staffing agencies. Labor unions promoted this new law. The California Chamber of Commerce opposed it. AB 1897 makes it easier for a worker […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR COMMISSIONER PROVIDES THE FAQ’S ON NEW PAID SICK LEAVE BENEFITS LAW
As covered in Mandatory Paid Sick Leave for California Employees, AB 1522 requires each California employer, regardless of size (and except for those with collective bargaining agreements and other very limited exemptions), to provide paid sick leave benefits to any temporary, part-time and full-time employee once he or she has worked for that company in […]
CALIFORNIA’S PAID SICK LEAVE NOTICE AND POSTER MUST IMPLEMENTED JANUARY 1, 2015
Wage Theft Notice and Poster Template Now Available As reported in “Mandatory Paid Sick Leave for California Employees” California’s Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (Assembly Bill [AB] 1522) requires nearly all California employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees. While affected employers do not need to provide paid sick leave until July 1, […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2015 INTERNS AND TRAINEES NOW PROTECTED FROM HARASSMENT AND DISCRIMINATION
Effective January 1, 2015, California Assembly Bill 1443 plugs a gap that had left interns, trainees, and others lawfully involved in unpaid work experience unprotected from unlawful harassment and discrimination. Since its enactment in 1980, California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) has prohibited employers from discriminating against “any person … in compensation or in […]
ANGER MANAGEMENT
Jerks, Introverts and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Weaving v. City of Hillsboro The ability of employers to follow the law – and of judges to enforce it – depends on clearly defined standards of responsibility and conduct. Vaguely or otherwise poorly stated rules can lead to inconsistent outcomes in very similar factual situations. This […]
BRINKER CASE SETTLES FOR $56 MILLION
California Restaurant Workers Settle High Profile Wage and Hour Class Action Lawsuit After waging a 10-year legal battle, Brinker Restaurant Corp., the parent company for Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurant chains, has settled its wage and hour class action lawsuit. On August 6, 2014, the parties reached a preliminary agreement to resolve all 120,000 class members’ […]
FEDERAL AGENCY WEIGHS IN ON PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION
EEOC Publishes Controversial Enforcement Guidelines On July 14, 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its first “guidance” on pregnancy discrimination since 1983. EEOC enforcement guidances are the agency’s interpretations of law. This set offers EEOC views on what constitutes unlawful pregnancy-based discrimination under the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), […]
“CALIFORNIA WAGE THEFT RECOVERY ACT” NAVIGATING HEAVY LEGISLATIVE SEAS
Assembly Bill 2416 Would Permit Employees to Impose Liens on All Employer Property for Alleged (but Unproven) Wage Claims California’s controversial Assembly Bill (AB) 2416, the “Wage Theft Recovery Act” continues to make progress through the Legislature. Patterned on a unique Wisconsin law, the Act, if passed, would enable an employee to create a lien […]