Employers: If an Employer Like Hyatt Regency Long Beach Is Fined $4.7 Million for Violating COVID-19 Right to Recall Law, You Know It is Time to Make Sure you Don’t California’s Labor Commissioner fined Hyatt Regency Long Beach $4,799,564 for failing to timely offer job positions to 25 employees who...
I-9 Verification of Employee Eligibility Reinstated Until COVID-19, employers were required to conduct an in-person inspection of I-9 Section 2 documents for new employees. That required an employee to show a valid passport, driver’s license, and/or social security card in order to verify an employee’s identity and that the employee...
Los Angeles City - Permanent Residential Renter Protections after COVID On April 3rd LA extended as permanent some of the COVID renter protections and enacted new ones.[1] Landlords can evict for at-fault reasons, which are included in the LA Housing reference list[2], as well as some no-fault reasons[3]; but cannot...
New Relaxed Covid Isolation Requirements The California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) revised the COVID guidelines to match the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommendations for Isolation and Precautions for People with COVID-19: •Employees can leave isolation after five days if they are feeling well,...
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...
Extension to COVID-19-Relief Bill Current state law was set to expire, but California extended the 2022 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law (“SPSL”), the law that requires employers with 26 or more employees to provide supplemental paid sick leave to employees for COVID-19 related qualifying reasons. September 30, 2022, providing...
HOPEFULLY THE LAST COVID-19 CDPH SUBSTANTIVE UPDATE On September 13th, the California Department of Public Health ("CDPH") issued another COVID-19 order for health care and school workplaces[1] that, while it does not rescind other areas, does rescind weekly testing requirements for health care workers (“HCW”) who had not vaccinated (but...