California Employment News: Understanding the Basics of Employee Personnel Files (Featured Podcast)
California Employment News: Understanding the Basics of Employee Personnel Files (Featured)
Podcast: California Employment News - Understanding the Basics of Employee Personnel Files
California Employment News: Understanding the Basics of Employee Personnel Files
As of July 27, 2025, employers with Washington employees have less time to respond to requests for personnel files, and have greater obligations and exposure to litigation related to doing so. With the passage of HB 1308,...more
Washington lawmakers were busy this year, and a wave of new laws will have a major impact on the workplace. Employers must be aware of significant workplace laws taking effect within the next year, including 11 new laws that...more
On January 1, 2025, the Illinois amendments to the state’s Personnel Records Review Act (PRRA) took effect. The amendments expand the type of documents employees have access to but increase the requirements requesting...more
Keypoint: Businesses subject to the CCPA will need to revise their compliance programs before the exemptions expire on January 1, 2023. As previously reported, the California legislature had been considering multiple bills...more
The California Legislature passed and Governor Newsom signed several new or amended employment laws covering topics ranging from non-disparagement and separation agreements, the California Family Rights Act, and warehouse...more
The Intersection Between Brady Lists, Pitchess Statutes and SB 1421 - California law enforcement agencies in California are now confronted with the interplay among Brady lists and alerts, the Public Records Act, and...more
A divided New York Court of Appeals recently held that Civil Rights Law § 50-a bars disclosure of police officer personnel records except under very limited circumstances, eliminating access to such records by the press or...more
Investigations in the public sector confront the competing demands of employee privacy rights and the public’s “right to know” under the Freedom of Information Act [“FOIA”]. Another decision by the Freedom of Information...more
Public hospital districts may not disclose certain records created during closed-door meetings about hospital privileging decisions, the Washington Supreme Court recently held in Cornu-Labat v. Hospital Dist. No. 2 Grant...more