Service Offering California Home Care Organizations Facing Unannounced Inspections and Possible Fees Increase The Keystone Cops, circa 1920. California’s Home Care Services Bureau (HCSB) licenses and oversees Home Care Organizations (HCOs) that provide employee caregivers to private clients. See: You…
Nine California Municipalities are Increasing Minimum Wage on July 1, 2017 Planning tank operations, Siege of Tobruk As relayed in our December, 2016 blog Hot Off the Presses, no less than 23 local governments are now requiring minimum wage levels…
Service Offering Company Loses by Management Inattention to California Compliant Pay Policies and Practices Clown, 1902 A Los Angeles superior court judge has ruled McDonald’s in violation of California’s daily overtime laws in 119 restaurants. Maria Sanchez v. McDonald’s Restaurants…
Service Offering New “Opportunity to Work” Ordinance Chief Telegraph Office, Queensland, Australia, circa 1890. Effective March 13, 2017, the City of San Jose’s Opportunity to Work Ordinance requires employers with 36 or more employees to offer additional work hours to…
Service Offering City Tightens Its Rules on Improper Use of Criminal Records to Deny Employment The Kid (1921), Charles Chaplin with Jackie Coogan Effective January 22, 2017, the City of Los Angeles’ (City) Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)…
Service Offering New Regulations Coming to Prevent Heat Illness in the California Workplace Indiana glass factory, August 1908. California’s Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board (OSHSB) created heat illness prevention regulations for outdoor workers in 2015. See New Heat Illness…
Service Offering HOW TO RISE ABOVE THE HAZE In November 2016, California voters approved The Adult Use of Marijuana Act, also known as Proposition 64 (California Health and Safety Code [HSC] sections 11357-11362.9) which allows adults 21 years of…
Service Offering Update Consumer Contracts Review Clauses Now James Cagney, G Men (1934) These days, consumer reviews posted online can make or break a business. Some businesses have sought to prevent negative reviews through “gag clauses” – contractual provisions buried in form…
Service Offering California Seeks to Deter Mishaps by Annual Employer Posting Requirement, February through April Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, Coney Island (1917) In an effort to deter workplace health and safety hazards, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and…
Service Offering CHILL ON THE MULTI-TASKING CALIFORNIA IMPOSES NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR CELL PHONE USAGE WHILE DRIVING The world’s first walkie-talkie For the past decade, California drivers have been prohibited from using a wireless mobile device for conversations unless it is…