Category: Workplace Policies
State High Court Rules on Arbitration Fee Payments
Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court decided a case that determines whether federal law preempts a California law enacted in 2019 that regulates when…
Pending Automated Decision-Making Systems (ADS) Legislation, Regulations
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber General Counsel, Labor and Employment Bianca Saad and CalChamber Senior Policy Advocate Ashley Hoffman discuss recent California regulations…
How to Prepare Your Workplace, Employees for Workplace Immigration Enforcement
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Associate General Counsel Matthew Roberts, Sheppard Mullins Partner Greg Berk and Sheppard Mullins Special Counsel Andrew Desposito…
Train Your Supervisors on California’s Complex Workplace Laws
Supervisors and managers have a huge effect on your workplace — potentially making key personnel decisions like hiring, transferring, suspending, laying off, promoting, firing and…
CalChamber Analysis: Up to $1 Billion in Costs from Legislation to Limit Workplace Automation Technology
California business owners could be saddled with more than $1 billion in new costs under state legislation seeking sweeping regulation of so-called “automation decision systems,”…
California Supreme Court Grants Review in Second ‘Headless’ PAGA Case
Recently, several California Courts of Appeal have issued conflicting decisions involving the use of “headless” Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions — those actions that…
Bill Undermining PAGA Reform to Be Considered by Senate Committee Today
Legislation opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce and a large coalition as a Cost Driver that undermines a painstaking negotiation by business and labor to reach a historic…
California Supreme Court to Consider Use of ‘Headless’ PAGA Actions
After two recent California Court of Appeal cases differed on “headless” Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions, the California Supreme Court announced that it is…
March Madness Begins: Make Sure Your Workplace Productivity Doesn’t Suffer
Among the most anticipated sports events of the year, the 2025 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament, aka “March Madness,” is officially underway. While employees…
Another Court Addresses Arbitration of ‘Headless’ PAGA Cases
In late 2024, the use of “headless” Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions — actions that do not allege an individual PAGA claim — was…
