California likes to promote employee mobility and last year took steps to prevent “stay or pay” provisions in the employment context. Accordingly, AB 692 prohibited certain contracts that
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Time to Revisit “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Practices for Employee Absences
How many times does an employee just call (or text) that they are not coming in? Not feeling well? Something vague. Then months (or years) later, the employer gets a
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Two hotel trade groups have filed a lawsuit to challenge the Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance (Ordinance), passed by the City Council in October, and slated to raise the
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Should California Employers Stop Providing PTO and Paid Vacation and Just Give Paid Sick Leave?
Beginning on July 1, 2015, California employers will need to provide paid sick leave to pretty much all full-time, part-time, temporary and even on-call employees. As the year end approaches,
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Los Angeles Hotel Minimum Wage Is Much More than Just a “Living Wage”
As I have blogged about previously, on October 10, 2014, the Los Angeles City Council passed the “Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance” (Ordinance). Last week I participated in
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What a Headache! California Enacts Paid Sick Leave (AB 1522)
California is now the second state in the nation to implement paid sick-leave state wide (Connecticut is the other). Thankfully for employers, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014
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Vacation/PTO Planning for the Holidays — It Is Time!
Fall is here and the 4th quarter of the year is underway. Retailers already have holiday decorations for sale. That means it is time to plan for the holidays.
This
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