With 38% of companies expecting to layoff employees in 2024, the start of the new year has already seen the announcements of thousands of employee layoffs across all sectors. What’s
Continue Reading Conducting a Respectful RIFBeginning New Year’s Day 2024, employers are required to give all non-exempt new hires working in California a new form of Wage Theft Prevention Act Notice containing new information. Employers
Continue Reading Employers Must Give New Hires Expanded Wage Theft Notice
You are invited to “Thinking Forward: Mitigating Workplace Risks in 2024” – our annual, half day symposium designed to set you up for success in 2024! This year’s compelling webinar
Continue Reading January 24, 2024 Webinar: “Thinking Forward: Mitigating Workplace Risks in 2024”
As you surely know by now, non-compete and non-solicit agreements, and related provisions in settlement or other types of agreements, will be even more heavily scrutinized in California in 2024.
Continue Reading Time to Revisit Your Confidentiality AgreementIt has been an eventful year for California employers, and I don’t anticipate a slowing of pace in 2024. Between higher minimum wages, increasingly complicated local ordinances (e.g. paid sick)
Continue Reading Three Workplace Issues to Watch in 2024
I have often said to clients that retaliation claims in California are the easiest claims to allege and the hardest claims to defend. Regardless of the statute, a retaliation claim
Continue Reading Retaliation Claims Will Be Even Easier to Allege in 2024
Do you want to avoid workplace claims? One great place to start is with gratitude.
In so many employment cases we see, the underlying issue is someone feeling under-appreciated. Employees
Continue Reading A Thanksgiving Reminder — Gratitude at Work
Though you may still be on a sugar high from Halloween, the new year is fast approaching, and with it, the onset of several new California employment laws. Employers should
Continue Reading 2024 Handbook Updates: What You Can’t Afford to Miss
California voters will no longer decide the fate of the controversial Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Act), which was expected to significantly affect fast-food restaurants in the
Continue Reading California Repeals FAST Act, Approves New Fast-Food Industry RegulationsAs if compiling all of the existing California employment notices wasn’t enough, a new law becoming effective January 1, 2024 imposes an additional notice to employees. AB 1076 piggybacks on
Continue Reading New Notices Required in CA Non-Compete Ban