With a record number of Californians missing work due to the Omicron variant, Governor Newsom has reached a deal with state lawmakers to require employers with more than 25 employees to provide special supplemental Covid-19 sick leave–again.
The prior law
By a hard-hitting 6-3 majority last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court barred the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from implementing or enforcing its new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). The ETS would have required that all employers of
Cal/OSHA updated its FAQs to conform to the new recommendations of the California Department of Health (CDPH). So, hot off the presses, here are the latest rules for California workplaces. A couple interesting points to note: First, there is no
Just two weeks ago, we detailed the readopted Cal/OSHA rules on quarantining in the event of a COVID-19 case or exposure. Now, the CDC and the CA Department of Public Health (CDPH) have weighed in. Most notably, the CDPH
As of New Year’s Day, the minimum wage employers must pay California employees once again jumps up, with ramifications beyond simply paying at least the new minimum rate.
The New Minimum Wage Figures
As of January 1, 2022, the minimum
The sharks are starting to circle around PAGA (Private Attorney General Act), a law that many California employers find crazy-making for all the reasons outlined here. PAGA may finally be subject to challenge on two separate fronts in 2022.
Jump-start the new year by learning how to mitigate modern business risks. On January 12, 2022, some of our terrific colleagues from Fox Rothschild’s Labor & Employment Practice Group will outline specific ways the pandemic has reshaped the labor and
A little over a year ago, Cal/OSHA adopted the first emergency temporary standards (“ETS”) to address COVID-19 cases in the workplace. Now, the second set of revisions will take effect on January 14, 2022 and are expected to expire April
With California serving as the home to nearly 11 million immigrants – the largest population of any U.S. state – employers with workforces in the Golden State must balance compliance with federal immigration law and a comprehensive understanding of state
Restaurants, bars and nightclubs in some of the most populous cities and counties in California must now verify that customers are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before allowing them in. The requirements potentially place employees in harm’s way and expose