As employers across the state worked to amend policies and procedures in preparation for California’s paid sick leave law, questions were raised about ambiguities and hurdles to implementation. The California State Legislature responded this spring with Assembly Bill...
The second largest city in the country voted yesterday to increase wages for its lowest-paid workers to $15 an hour by 2020. The Los Angeles minimum wage increase was passed by a 14-1 vote in the City Council. Other major cities to pass minimum wage increases recently...
Also known as the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, the new law requires all employers – including household employers – to provide paid sick leave in California to all employees beginning on July 1, 2015. The law provides that an employee who works in...
The California paid sick leave law, also known as the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown, authorizing employers – including household employers – in California to provide their employees...
California’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights (AB241) took effect yesterday, making California the third state in the nation to enact such a law; New York passed theirs in 2010, and Hawaii’s passed in 2012. The law grants overtime protections to domestic workers...