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WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
BEACON BECKONS
Annual Virtual Seminar for Employers
Friday, January 17, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Covering Employment Legal Essentials and New Workplace Laws
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 91
IN THE HOT SEAT
Employer Pays Big for Ignoring Extreme Conditions
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.
AIR SCARE
Cal/OSHA Wildfire Smoke Alert Worker Protection Los Angeles County and Beyond
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.
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 90
MAUL WAKE-UP CALL
Cal/OSHA Fines LA Animal Shelter For Overcrowding, Staff Injuries
California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has penalized…
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
WISE UP
Annual Virtual Seminar for Employers
Friday, January 17, 2025 Friday, February 28, 2025
Covering Employment Legal Essentials and New Workplace Laws
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Employers Must Publish Results of Child Labor Audits
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
HIGHWAY PAY
Three Cent Increase, Annual IRS Standard Mileage Rate
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.
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
WORKPLACE ROULETTE
Reducing the Odds of PAGA Purgatory
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” Plato
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
CALIFORNIA MINIMUM WAGE
RATES INCREASES
Effective January 1, 2025, California minimum wage will increase to $16.50 per hour for all employers, regardless of size.
WHAT’S NEW IN 2025
LET YOUR PEOPLE GO
Feds and California Ban “Captive Audience” Staff Meetings
Effective January 1, 2025, SB 399 bans employers from holding any mandatory meetings (also called “captive audience meetings”) to discuss politics or religion with their employees, defining those subjects as…