Posts Tagged ‘California Employment Law’
WHAT’S NEW IN 2017
Ban The Box In The City Of Los Angeles The City of Los Angeles (City) is now the second city in California after San Francisco to restrict employers from asking job applicants about criminal conviction until a conditional offer of employment has been made. See, San Francisco Employers Must Give Former Convicts a Fighting Chance […]
WHAT’S NEW IN 2017
Employers May Not Request Juvenile Criminal History in Employment Application California restricts the type of questions employers may ask job applicants about their criminal history. Employers may not request information about a felony or serious criminal misdemeanor which has been judicially expunged, dismissed or ordered sealed and employers may only seek information about criminal convictions […]
WHAT’S NEW IN 2017
California Must Notify Employees of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking Victims’ Rights Existing law prohibits an employer from discharging or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking for taking time off from work for specified activities in the aftermath of those […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2017
Larger California Employers Must Pay Higher Minimum Wages and Salaries Effective January 1, 2017 For companies with 26 or more on payroll, California Labor Code 1182.12 directs yet another statewide increase in minimum hourly wages, from $10 to $10.50/hour, starting January 1, 2017. Employers with 25 or fewer on payroll must comply with that increase […]
HOT OFF THE PRESSES
Minimum Wage Rates List Updated for 2017 California’s local minimum wage ordinances continue to spread like wildfire. Since publishing our Minimum Wage Rates For 2017 article two weeks ago (December 16, 2016), the City of San Leandro enacted their own minimum wage rates and regulations. This updated 2017 list includes San Leandro’s ordinance as […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2017
California Imposes Controls on Janitorial Businesses Requirements Include Registration and Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training California Assembly Bill (AB) 1978, enacted September 2016 as the Property Services Protection law (the Act), will require janitorial service providers to register annually with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) and to provide sexual harassment training to their […]
WHAT’S NEW FOR 2017
IRS Lowers Mileage Rate by One-Half Cent to 53.5 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced a decrease of its optional standard mileage reimbursement rate for an employee’s business miles from 54 cents to 53.5 cents, effective January 1, 2017. The government bases its standard mileage rate on an annual study of fixed and variable […]
CALIFORNIA INCREASES MINIMUM WAGE RATES FOR 2017
California minimum wage will increase to $10.50 per hour on January 1, 2017 for employers with 26 or more employees (smaller employers will continue to pay $10.00 per hour until January 1, 2018) then increase each year until reaching $15 per hour in 2022. See California’s Gradual Increases in Minimum Wage, to Reach $15.00 Per […]
CALIFORNIA REVISES OVERTIME-EXEMPT MINIMUM HOURLY RATES
For Computer Professionals and M.D.s Effective January 1, 2017 California Labor Code sections 515.5 and 515.6 exempt certain computer software professionals and licensed physicians and surgeons from overtime compensation as long as they receive at least certain specified minimum hourly rates of pay. As we recently covered in Overtime – Exempt Physicians and Surgeons Minimum […]
HOME CARE ORGANIZATIONS GET READY NOW
Unannounced Inspections to Commence Soon California’s Home Care Organization Consumer Protection Act (the Act) required all home health care organizations (HCOs) to obtain a license from the Home Care Services Bureau (HCSB) of the Department of Social Services (DSS) by July 1, 2016 and to register their home care aides with the HCSB. See, You […]