Employment News

The California Family Rights Act already provides most employees in the state with up to 12 workweeks of family care and medical leave in a year. And now the law has been amended, allowing workers to take leave for care of a designated person in addition to family members.  Here’s what California employees should know about the new law, Assembly Bill No. 1041, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sept. 30. What workplaces are covered? Any government entity in the state, and businesses that … [Read more...]

Do you know if your job is paying you fairly? If you work in California, big changes to the law next year will empower you with more salary data to answer that question. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recently signed a bill that requires California employers with 15 or more workers to provide a salary range on all job postings – and share that information with current employees. Other states, including Colorado, Nevada, Connecticut, and Washington, have passed similar legislation. But … [Read more...]

Most of the time, anything your employer requires you to do also should come with compensation, according to California law. We’re here to help if that doesn’t happen. But there are some nuances when it comes to requirements that are tied to a job offer. This summer, an appeals court in California provided some guidelines about how that plays out practically. Alfred Johnson filed a class-action lawsuit against supermarket chain WinCo Foods. Successful WinCo job applicants were expected to … [Read more...]

A class-action suit against Amazon may show where California courts stand on reimbursement for costs workers shouldered while working from home during the pandemic.  Amazon is among several companies facing lawsuits over remote employees’ added expenses, such as telephone and Internet costs, office supplies, and additional energy costs. During the months of the pandemic, those expenses could have potentially reached thousands of dollars per employee. David Williams, a senior software … [Read more...]

The state of California is appealing a judge’s 2021 ruling striking down a voter-approved ballot measure exempting certain app-based workers from legislation requiring them to be classified as employees.  The case, Castellanos et al. v. California, has to do with Proposition 22, also known as the Protect App-Based Drivers and Services Act, a 2020 ballot measure which received heavy financial backing from Uber, Lyft and other app-based companies. The law passed with 59 percent of the … [Read more...]