California law is complicated. When doing business in California, it helps to get the small things right – like mandatory postings. Keep reading for the signs California employers must post in the workplace...more
2/11/2025
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Cal-OSHA ,
California ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
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State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
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Whistleblowers ,
Workplace Safety
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is already bringing change to the city. On December 11, 2024, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-3 to approve a draft ordinance to amend the Living Wage Ordinance and the Hotel Worker Minimum...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Are you ready for it? The record-smashing icon, Taylor Swift, may have taken her tour to Europe, but that doesn’t stop new laws from cropping up back home. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed...more
6/19/2024
/ City of Los Angeles ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Workweek ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Regulations ,
Retail Workers ,
Retailers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Schedules
Seyfarth Synopsis: The holidays aren’t the only thing around the corner. The City of Los Angeles’ proposed Fair Work Week Ordinance is poised to place new onerous scheduling requirements on retailers. The Los Angeles City...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The holidays aren’t the only thing around the corner. The City of Los Angeles’ proposed Fair Work Week Ordinance is poised to place new onerous scheduling requirements on retailers. The Los Angeles City...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: A city that knows how to prepare for a natural disaster better than Charlie Mackenzie is now arming its employees to better face any future pandemics or public health crisis. San Francisco voters recently...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: West Hollywood has joined the growing ranks of California cities that have their own local sick leave and/or minimum wage requirements. West Hollywood enacted an ordinance that creates new paid and unpaid...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: West Hollywood, California enacted a general, non-COVID paid time off mandate with a minimum wage component. Effective January 1, 2022 for “hotel employers” and July 1, 2022 for other employers, this...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Wake up San Francisco! Mayor London Breed has approved amendments that will significantly expand the city’s 2014 Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance (“FFWO”). The amendments will go into effect on July 12,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 9, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom enacted the 2022 iteration of California’s COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave law. The new law will be effective Saturday February 19, 2022 (10 days after...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the legislature would reenact California’s COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave law (again).The announcement was followed in short order by draft...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 25, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the legislature would reenact California’s COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave law (again). With the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 18, 2021, the California Senate voted to revive and expand the Covid-19 related supplemental paid sick leave law that expired on December 31, 2020. Governor Newsom is expected to sign the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 18, 2021, the California Senate voted to revive and expand the COVID-19 related supplemental paid sick leave law that expired on December 31, 2020. Governor Newsom is expected to sign the...more
On January 19, 2021, the City of Long Beach adopted an ordinance requiring large grocery stores to pay an additional $4 per hour to certain grocery workers. The emergency ordinance, which is effective immediately, also...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 26, 2021, the County of Los Angeles passed an ordinance requiring both large and small employers in unincorporated parts of the County to provide supplemental COVID-19 related paid sick leave....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Long Beach's City Council directed their attorneys to prepare ordinances requiring that certain grocery stores pay their employees an additional five and four...more
1/11/2021
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Essential Workers ,
Grocery Store Workers ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
Minimum Wage ,
Operators of Essential Services ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
State and Local Government ,
Wage and Hour
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 9, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1867, which requires private employers with 500 or more employees nationwide to provide COVID-19-related supplemental paid sick leave to their...more
9/18/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Rights ,
Food Service Workers ,
Governor Newsom ,
Infectious Diseases ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Sick Leave ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 9, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1867, which requires private employers with 500 or more employees nationwide to provide COVID-19-related supplemental paid sick leave to their...more
9/11/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employee Rights ,
Fast-Food Industry ,
Food Service Workers ,
Governor Newsom ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Legislation ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Sick Leave ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Statements ,
Workplace Safety
Seyfarth Synopsis: While employers usually don’t need to pay for travel time associated with an employee’s ordinary commute, federal and California law create exceptions that employers should know—particularly when company...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 19, 2020, the City of Long Beach joined a growing number of California cities and counties that have extended COVID-19 related paid sick leave to employees who would not be eligible for analogous...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Los Angeles continues to enact local COVID-19 ordinances at the County and City level. On April 28, 2020, the County of Los Angeles passed an ordinance requiring employers with over 500 employees to provide...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
Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers offering bonuses to workers during the COVID-19 crisis must beware the famous saying that “wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” Some bonuses trigger special rules that employers...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 27, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council voted on several COVID-19 related ordinances that impact employers and businesses. ...more
3/30/2020
/ City of Los Angeles ,
Employee Definition ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Essential Goods ,
Essential Workers ,
First Responders ,
Labor Regulations ,
Small Business ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour