Seyfarth Synopsis: On April 28, 2020, Mayor London Breed announced a plan to allow employees working in San Francisco to use funds from the Healthcare Security Ordinance (“HCSO”) contributions to buy “necessary expenditures,”...more
Seyfarth Synopsis. On April 27, 2020, Illinois released a draft of the anticipated modified stay at home order that is expected to go into effect May 1, 2020 and will be effective until May 30, 2020. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On Thursday, April 23, 2020, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that he expected to sign an order modifying and extending the current Illinois’ stay-at-home order next week. The stay at home order will not...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Jose City Council enacted emergency ordinances to expand paid sick leave beyond that provided under the federal Families First Coronavirus...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Public Health Emergency Leave Ordinance to expand paid sick leave to employees not entitled to leave under the federal Families First Coronavirus...more
4/16/2020
/ CARES Act ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Guidance Update ,
Local Ordinance ,
Mayor-Breed ,
Paid Family Leave Law ,
Paid Leave ,
Parental Leave ,
politics ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
San Francisco ,
Vacation Leave ,
Wage and Hour
Increasing fears about community spread of COVID-19 have caused a growing number of states and other localities to issue orders requiring those who are traveling to or returning to the state from out-of-state or specific...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Many employers are asking whether they need to provide documentation to employees performing work during a shelter-in-place or similar order and increasingly, employees are demanding such documentation. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis. Eight California counties—San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Sonoma, and Santa Cruz—along with the City of Berkeley, issued revised shelter-in-place orders on March 31st....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA), on behalf of the Federal government, has issued a revised advisory memorandum listing “essential” infrastructure and workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...more
3/30/2020
/ Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Essential Functions ,
Essential Workers ,
Information Sharing ,
New Guidance ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Private Sector
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Illinois Department of Commerce has published two helpful documents for businesses to determine whether they qualify as an “Essential Business” under the Illinois’ statewide Stay-at-Home Order...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, and Yolo Counties, along with the City of Fresno, joined ten other California counties to issue shelter-in-place orders. Sutter and Yolo...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following the statewide stay-at-home mandate issued by Governor Newsom on March 19, 2020, three California counties, Amador, Merced, and Ventura, and the City of Palm Springs issued their own orders to...more
3/23/2020
/ City of Los Angeles ,
Construction Industry ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Environmental Policies ,
Executive Orders ,
Governor Newsom ,
Hospitals ,
Local Ordinance ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
San Francisco ,
Shelter-In-Place ,
State and Local Government ,
State of Emergency
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 21, 2020, the California State Public Health Officer released a list of “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers” that accompanies Governor Newsom’s recent Executive Order directing all but...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a stay-at-home order for the entire state of Illinois, effective March 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm. All Illinois residents have been ordered to stay at home, subject to exceptions...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As of midnight on March 18, 2020, Sonoma, Monterey, and San Benito Counties in California joined the seven San Francisco Bay Area Counties to order their residents to shelter-in-place. Sacramento County...more
The State of California added another patch to the patchwork of county and city orders requiring businesses to close and employees to stay home in response to COVID-19....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: At 12:01 AM on March 17, 2020, with the exception of some specific tasks and jobs, seven Bay Area counties are requiring all residents to shelter in place until at least April 7, 2020, in an effort to curb...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: As restaurant and hospitality consumers rethink their dining experiences, increased concerns are coming from food service providers about how to ensure food safety, reassure patrons, and address issues...more
3/13/2020
/ Best Practices ,
Business Continuity Plans ,
China ,
Contamination ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Crisis Management ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Food Service Workers ,
Franchises ,
Health and Safety ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Preventive Health Care ,
Public Health ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Risk Management ,
Strategic Planning ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Seyfarth Synopsis: A new set of proposed regulations requires all janitorial employees and their supervisors to receive two hours of in-person, interactive sexual harassment training every two years....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California state assembly is set to vote on Senate Bill 171, a state analogue to the federal EEO-1 report, which would require employers with 100 or more employees to submit annual pay data reports to...more
6/14/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 22, 2019, Colorado Governor Polis signed the “Equal Pay for Equal Work Act” which is the latest—and one of the most demanding—pay equity laws in the nation. ...more
5/24/2019
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Equity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Gap ,
Sex Discrimination ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: On technical grounds, the Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit’s decision on the use of prior salary to explain pay differences under federal law....more
2/28/2019
/ Appeals ,
Deceased ,
En Banc Review ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Judge Reinhardt ,
Judicial Review ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Reversal ,
Salary/Wage History ,
SCOTUS ,
Yovino v Rizo
Seyfarth Synopsis: Google now finds itself in the unfortunate position of being accused of discrimination against women in pay and promotions and – according to a new complaint filed in California Superior Court – against...more
1/17/2018
/ Class Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Pay ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Equity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Google ,
Pay Gap ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Technology Sector ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: Effective on January 1, 2018, California’s new salary history ban law will prohibit inquiries about an applicant’s salary history and will create an affirmative obligation to disclose a “pay scale” upon an...more
1/2/2018
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Gap ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: After two previous failed attempts, California joins seven other U.S. jurisdictions to prohibit inquiries into an applicant’s salary history. Read on for a recap of the new law....more