The City of San Diego has released new Minimum Wage and Earned Sick Leave notices. Effective July 11, 2016, the minimum wage in the city of San Diego increased from $10.00 per hour to $10.50 per hour. Additionally, employers must … Read More
The cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Monica released new Minimum Wage notices. Effective July 1, 2016, the minimum wage in the cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Monica will increase from $10.00 per hour to $10.50 per hour … Read More
California has taken a series of moves to make smoking both more difficult and more restrictive in the state. First, like Hawaii, it is upping the legal age to buy tobacco products to 21 from 18. It has also extended … Read More
Attorneys-general from eight states, including California, have collaborated in an effort to rein in on-call worker policies that leave employees dangling and unable to do anything while waiting for a call to work that might never come. On-call policies demand … Read More
Just a week after San Francisco went all out by guaranteeing 100 percent pay for employees who take family leave for the birth of a child, the state of California is raising its contribution to the program beginning in 2018. … Read More
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined supporters from across the state in Los Angeles this week to sign landmark legislation that makes California the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour … Read More
San Francisco has piggy-backed on an existing California law allowing parents to take six weeks of 55-percent paid leave for the birth of a child by mandating their employers pay the other 45 percent. Result: Continuation of regular pay for … Read More
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing released an updated Your Rights and Obligations as a Pregnant Employee notice. Effective April 1, 2016, California employers with 5 or more part-time or full-time employees must post the recently revised Pregnant … Read More