Value of Holiday Gift Card May Be Factor in Calculating Pay Rate
I’d like to give my employees gift cards worth a few hundred dollars at the end of the year as a holiday gift. Is the…
Recent Standards Board Rule Revisions Affect Many Businesses
We are a small machine shop that specializes in custom automotive parts and one of our employees recently requested a copy of our Injury and…
COVID-19 Emergency Regulation Now In Effect
On Monday, November 30, 2020, the Office of Administrative Law approved the new COVID-19 emergency regulation, which went into effect immediately. As previously reported, the…
Updated Pay Data Reporting FAQs Released
One new law taking effect January 1, 2021, requires employers, who have 100 or more employees and are subject to federal EEO-1 reporting, to complete…
Being Thankful in 2020
As we approach Thanksgiving in what has been an especially rough year, there’s no better time to focus our attention on what we have to…
Options to Consider When an Employee Threatens to Commit Suicide
I have an employee who has threatened to commit suicide. We are very concerned. What should we do, and do we have any obligations? These…
COVID-19 Prevention Program Emergency Regulation Adopted
On November 19, 2020, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHSB) voted to adopt a comprehensive and complex COVID-19 emergency regulation addressing a…
U.S. DOL Releases Training, Travel Time Opinion Letters
On November 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued two opinion letters interpreting the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regarding the compensability…
Is Security Screening Time De Minimis?
After more than seven years and multiple federal and state court rulings, the saga of Apple, Inc.’s exit search policy continues. In an October amendment…
Free 2021 California Employment Laws White Paper
Even in a months-long pandemic, the California Legislature passed a bunch of new employment laws — some COVID-19-related, some not — that Governor Gavin Newsom…
