We want to Remind Employers that Starting July 1, 2024 You Need a Workplace Violence Preventive Plan By July 1, 2024, California employers are required to have a written plan against workplace violence. “Workplace Violence” encompasses any act or threat that may lead to physical harm, psychological distress, or undue...
JOINT EMPLOYER: NEW RULE A “joint employer” is when different entities exercise enough control over a worker that they have each formed an employment relationship with that worker. Thus, one worker could be an employee of multiple entities, even if those entities are not associated with one another (think, for...
NEW LAW BANNING EMPLOYEE NON-COMPETE CLAUSES (IN EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS AND AGREEMENTS) California’s Senate Bill 699 (along with existing laws), bans (actually voids) agreements that purport to restrain an employee from competing with the employer: Existing law (Business & Profession Code 16600) states "Every contract by which anyone is restrained from...
Medi-Cal Fraud Epps & Coulson, LLP represents groups of clients in four core areas: business generally, real estate, employment and health care. We keep up with what’s going on in those core areas. On the health care front, we help clients stay out of regulatory trouble, as well as all...
CA Extends Attorney Appearing Remotely for Court Proceedings Existing law authorizes, until July 1, 2023, a party to appear remotely and a court to conduct conferences, hearings, proceedings, and even trials in civil cases, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology. While California Senate Bill 133...
Apartment Owners Fighting New LA Rent Laws The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (“AAGLA”) filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles in order to stop LA’s enforcement of two renter protection ordinances: Ordinance No. 187763 requiring at least one month of past due rent before the landlord...
SELL SELL SELL YOUR LA REAL ESTATE BEFORE YOU’RE TAXED MORE APRIL 1, 2023…April Fools Day. Don’t wait until then to close on your transactions. Los Angeles Measure ULA is commonly known as the “mansion tax.”[1] It will impose a new “Homelessness and Housing Solutions Tax” on transfers of residential...
EMPLOYERS 2023 - Are You Prepared? Epps & Coulson, LLP wishes all of our clients a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year 2023. California enacted new laws that affect employers. We already updated you on the Minimum Wage increase [article], which increased it to $15.50/hour (or more, depending on local...
CA: New Laws Allow Multifamily Residential Development on Commercial Property California enacted a law that takes effect on July 2023, which allows residential construction on commercially zoned property. The law at issue is intended to allow for streamline approval of multifamily housing developments in commercial zones. So long as 100%...
New California Rules Will Allow Nurse Practitioners to Practice Without Physician Supervision California’s nursing agency just approved rules that will allow nurse practitioners to treat patients without direct physician supervision. This vote is one of the last major steps necessary to fully implement a 2020 law that will allow nurse...