Tag: termination
What Supervisors Need to Know, Part I: ‘Hard’ Compliance Skills
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Associate General Counsel Matthew Roberts, Senior Employment Law Counsel Erika Barbara and Employment Law Subject Matter Expert…
Register Now for CalChamber’s Revamped HR Boot Camp, Leaves of Absence Seminars
CalChamber has updated and revamped our virtual seminars for 2025 by adding more examples and scenarios to help you apply key legal concepts to real-world…
Stock Options Are Not “Wages” in California
In startup businesses, it’s not uncommon for employees to accept less cash compensation in exchange for stock options — the option to buy the company…
What Employers Can Learn From EEOC’s Enforcement Efforts
Discrimination in the workplace is, unfortunately, alive and well. In fiscal year 2022, for example, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 73,485 discrimination…
Floating Holiday Policy Determines Payout When Employment Ends
Our company offers floating holidays to employees. Do these floating holidays have to be paid out at termination? The short answer is — it depends….
CalChamber Webinar on Best Practices for Addressing Discipline, Termination in the Workplace
On Thursday, September 14, CalChamber employment law experts will give best practices for addressing performance and behavioral issues in the workplace in a live webinar….
Remote Workers Moving Out of State, School-Related Leaves a Top Concern for Employers Calling the CalChamber Labor Law Helpline
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber employment law experts Matthew Roberts and Ellen Savage discuss some of the latest labor and employment issues…
Terminating Employee on Workers’ Comp Involves Delicate Decisions
We are a smaller employer with only 16 employees, and we have an employee who has been on workers’ compensation for more than eight months….
Employee Arrested While Off Duty? Proceed Cautiously; Gather Facts
One of our employees did not show up for work yesterday and failed to call or otherwise notify us of his absence. We have a…
Final Wages to Fired Employee Should Include Reporting Time Pay
Late during the shift one afternoon, I discovered one of the employees had been stealing from the company. I immediately sent him home. When he…
