Tag: COVID-19
Los Angeles City COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Ends Soon
In response to COVID-19, California and several California cities and counties adopted COVID-19 emergency paid sick leave orders or ordinances, but after three years of…
Top 2022 HRWatchdog Blogs: COVID-19, New Laws, Mental Stress
Goodbye, 2022! 2023, and all those new employment laws, are right around the corner, so let’s take a look back at our most popular HRWatchdog…
Cal/OSHA Extends COVID-19 Regulation for 2 Years
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board voted 6-1 Thursday to continue California’s COVID-19 regulation until December 2024. As part of…
Cal/OSHA Considers Removing Exclusion Pay Mandate From New COVID-19 Emergency Regulation
As the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) prepares to vote on the next iteration of California’s COVID-19 emergency regulation, one important change…
Cal/OSHA Makes Big Changes to COVID-19 Regulation Ahead of December Vote
California employers may want to get out their measuring tape — because the size (in cubic feet) of a workspace just became an important element…
COVID-19 Close Contact Definition Changed
On October 13, 2022, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued an order updating the definition for “close contact” as it relates to the…
Form I-9 Document Inspection Flexibility Extended into 2023
On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it was once again extending the Form…
5 New California Labor Laws Employers Should Start Preparing For
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber employment law expert Matthew Roberts and CalChamber policy advocate Ashley Hoffman discuss five new labor laws employers…
COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave (SPSL) Extended Through End of the Year
On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 152 into law. AB 152 is a budget trailer bill extending an employee’s eligibility to use 2022…
CalChamber Calls for Changes to Nonemergency COVID Draft Rule
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) Standards Board’s draft proposal to extend the state’s COVID-19 regulation for another two years — with…
