Tag: California

December 15, 2023

A trial court erred in dismissing an employee’s age bias claim before trial, a California appeals court recently ruled. The man’s employer claimed he voluntarily accepted a new position during a corporate reorganization, but there was evidence to support the […]

October 5, 2023

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a new law to require employers to adopt workplace violence prevention plans, maintain records of any threats or incidents of workplace violence, and provide effective training to workers on workplace violence. The U.S. Occupational […]

September 18, 2023

Cortese said the bill was prompted by a 2021 shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) railyard in San Jose that killed 10 people, including the shooter. An independent investigator found the transportation authority didn’t have prior knowledge […]

June 26, 2023

A California court recently ruled in favor of the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), the agency responsible for the human resource management of state employees, including issues regarding salaries, benefits, job classifications, training, and recruitment. The case arose from […]

April 5, 2023

Employers that had not signed an arbitration agreement between an employee and a related company could not enforce the agreement, a California appeals court ruled. The employee worked for seven related companies, all of which shared office space in the […]

March 21, 2023

Workplace violence is a serious concern for California employers in all industries, but the state’s workplace violence prevention regulations are currently applicable only to the healthcare industry. A bill recently introduced in the California legislature would require the state’s occupational […]

February 6, 2023

An employee is not subject to California’s outside salesperson exemption where the employer controls the employee’s hours and working conditions, even if they work at a fixed site not owned or leased by the employer, a California appeals court recently […]

January 31, 2023

Under the Contractors State License Law, a limited liability company could be licensed through the qualification of a responsible managing employee (RME) and certain other individuals affiliated with the company. Its license would be automatically suspended if the RME disassociated […]

January 31, 2023

Another California technology firm is reducing headcount ahead of an anticipated recession. Workday Inc. is cutting 3% (roughly 525 employees) of its global workforce, the company said in an email to staff on Tuesday. The majority of the Pleasanton, CA-based […]

January 30, 2023

Under section 98.2(b) of California’s Labor Code, if an employer wants to appeal a Labor Commissioner’s decision to the superior court, which would hear the appeal from the beginning, the employer should post a bond. The case of Adanna Car […]

January 20, 2023

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) 2018 passage, employers have been wondering how the law will apply to data collected and maintained about employees. Until now, employment data had been exempted from most of the CCPA’s requirements. But the […]

December 13, 2022

As the year ends, privacy and legal departments can audit external-facing privacy statements and other website practices to ensure compliance with the California privacy law amendments, which take effect in January 2023. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended […]

November 18, 2022

In what some may consider an unexpected development, the City of Irvine, Calif. is set to implement a new ordinance that will require Irvine hotels to follow stringent workplace safety rules for their employees. The ordinance parallels the hotel worker […]

October 6, 2022

California employers will soon be prohibited from taking adverse action against employees who refuse to report to a workplace during an emergency condition, according to a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Sept. 29. While some of the […]

October 6, 2022

As high-profile brands throughout the United States, especially in California, announce layoffs and job cuts ahead of an anticipated recession, HR leaders are being tasked with crafting severance packages for impacted employees. Severance pay is monetary compensation that employers offer […]

September 30, 2022

The case of Kaur v. Foster Poultry Farms LLC involved a workplace injury. Foster Poultry Farms LLC employed the plaintiff as a yield monitor at its chicken processing facility. While working in 2013, she slipped while wearing company-issued rubber boots […]

September 30, 2022

If one wants to depose a high-level official who seeks a protective order to prohibit the deposition, the court should determine whether there is good cause showing that the official has unique or superior personal knowledge of discoverable information, a […]

September 29, 2022

With the stroke of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pen, a new pay transparency law was passed on Tuesday. The new legislation – Senate Bill 1162 – expands upon the framework of the Equal Pay Act, which requires employers in the […]

September 29, 2022

In a recent case before the California Court of Appeal, a surgeon claimed that the hospitals employing him subjected him to unlawful retaliation after he made whistleblower complaints regarding patient safety concerns. The plaintiff in the case of Bonni v. […]

September 26, 2022

A decision by the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) denying an employee’s claim of disability discrimination under Labor Code Section 132a did not prevent the employee from going forward with her claims of disability bias and failure to provide […]