RECORDING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS Taking effect 1 January 2021, Assembly Bill (AB) 685 establishes stringent COVID-19 recording and reporting requirements when employers receive notice of a potential COVID-19 exposure at the workplace. Among other things, AB 685...
Are there laws in place that protect me from discrimination based on my criminal history? The Fair Chance Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2018, is a California law that generally prohibits employers of more than 5 employees from asking about the conviction...
Having a laid-back, friendly atmosphere at work can be a positive thing because it prompts people to be excited about coming to their job every day. A casual workspace can feel more like a family than a group of relative strangers. Unfortunately, some people can take...
Employers must know about various employment laws and abide by them in many areas of their operation, including reasonably accommodating their employees with disabilities. Whether you have a lifelong disability or you develop a condition later in life, the Americans...
This article explains an employee’s legal rights to maternity and pregnancy disability leave.
New California Employment Laws for 2021
Your condition didn’t come on overnight, and you didn’t have it when you first started working for your employer. For a long while, you were able to manage your health problem well with medication alone without it affecting your ability to work. Now, things have...
As bizarre as it might seem to anybody who still thinks of Millennials as mere youngsters, this is the year that the oldest millennials hit the big 4-0, thus making them eligible to litigate after instances of age discrimination in the workplace. Admittedly,...
Discrimination is common and often easy to spot. What’s more difficult is determining why it exists. Even if two people have different religions, different cultures or different skin color, why would those differences pit them against one another? Why would one person...
Employees who have held a job with the same California company for one or more decades often believe they are immune to a sudden termination. If these workers have continuously performed well and received few, if any, reprimands, an abrupt termination seems nearly...