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...
EASIER FOR CA EMPLOYEES TO PROVE EMPLOYER RETALIATION California’s Equal Pay and Anti-Retaliation Protection Act is effective January 1, 2024 and amends certain provisions of the California Labor Code to create a rebuttable presumption of retaliation by the employer in favor of the employee, if an employee experiences an “adverse...
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...
California expands Paid Sick Leave to 5 Days/40 Hours California’s Senate Bill (SB) No. 616 is now law and it amends California’s paid sick leave law to expand mandatory paid sick leave from three days or twenty-four hours to five days or forty hours. The increased paid sick leave requirements take effect...
Google Must Pay Employee $1.1 million for Gender Bias Claim A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded Google ex-executive Ulku Rowe $1.1 million. In Rowe’s lawsuit, she alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts and that Google later denied her promotions in retaliation...
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...