2025 IRS Mileage On December 19, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service issued its annual notice[1] of the 2025 standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, moving, and charitable purposes. For employers, that is, the mileage that employers should pay employees for business...
California Limits When Employers Can Require Driver’s Licenses California has another new law. It restricts when employers with five or more employees can say in a job posting or advertisement that a candidate must have a driver’s license. As of January 1, 2025, it is an unlawful employment practice for...
California Enacts Key Employment Law Changes for 2025 – Don’t Get Sued Call us if you need your employee handbooks updated. Because effective January 1, 2025, California employers must comply with several significant updates to state employment laws. These include increases to minimum salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, amendments to...
Texas Judge Eliminates Federal Overtime Rule - Update A federal judge in Texas entirely eliminated a rule from President Joe Biden’s administration that expanded overtime protections for workers by requiring employers to pay overtime premiums to more salaried people, eliminating one of the highest-profile Labor Department rules enacted during the...
Employer Posting for Voting/Employee Time Off In case you haven’t heard (right), the election is November 5th. By ten (10) days before the election (i.e. by October 26, 2024), California employers must post a detailed notice to inform employees of their right to paid time off to vote. The State...
Federal Court Strikes Down FTC's Non-Compete Rule What It Means for Employers In a surprising turn of events, a federal court in Texas has struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) non-compete rule, just days before it was set to take effect on September 4, 2024. This ruling has sent...
CALIFORNIA PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACT (PAGA) CHANGES Employers: the California Private Attorney General Act (“PAGA”) is being amended to impose new limits on who can bring a PAGA action and the scope of Labor Code violations that a plaintiff employee can pursue; it will also create caps on penalties for...
FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS CALIFORNIA’S AB5 ON EMPLOYEE CLASSIFICATION The full 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s AB5, which redefined how courts determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees. This decision has significant implication for employers across the state. AB5, enacted in 2020 was originally...
CALIFORNIA UPDATES: TWO MANDATORY PAMPHLETS REQUIRED FOR NEW HIRES California made updates to two crucial pamphlets that employers are required to provide to new hires. (1) The “TIME of Hire” pamphlet provided by the California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Worker’s Compensation and (2) the “For Your Benefit” pamphlet...
We want to Remind Employers about Expansion of Paid Sick Leave starting January 1, 2024 Employers must now provide workers to at least 40 hours or five days of paid sick leave each year. The prior requirement of only 24 hours or 3 days was replaced. Some areas of California...