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Today, September 18, 2019, AB5 was signed into CA law by the Governor.  AB5 embraces and codifies the so called “ABC Test” from the California Supreme Court decision of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (April 30, 2018) as the proper CA test for determining if a worker may be classified as an …

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The following are summaries of new employment laws passed by the California legislature, and signed by the Governor, at the end of September, 2018. SB 1343 — Employers with 5 or more employees, including part time, temporary and seasonal employees, must give anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training to all of their employees (supervisory and non-supervisory) shortly …

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Earlier this week, Governor Brown signed the Immigrant Worker Protection Act into law.  Under the law, an employer may not provide federal immigration enforcement agents access to their business without a warrant (other than to ascertain if they…

On February 8, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held, in the case of Lawson v. Grubhub, Inc., that a former Grubhub delivery driver was not an employee, as the driver claimed, but rather was properly classified as an independent contractor.  The test for whether a worker is an employee …

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On October 15, 2017, Governor Brown signed SB 396.  The California Fair Employment and Housing Act already requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of training regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory…

On October 14, 2017, Governor Brown signed AB 1008 into law, requiring most employers with 5 or more employees, before denying an applicant a position of employment solely or in part because of the applicant’s conviction history, to make an…

On October 12, 2017, Governor Brown signed AB 168, prohibiting employers from relying on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer an applicant employment or what salary to offer an…

On October 12, 2017, Governor Brown signed SB-63, which forces employers to grant to employees with more than 12 months of service with the employer, who have at least 1,250 hours of service with the employer during the previous 12-month period…

I have previously blogged about the California Private School Teachers Exemption, which exempts certain private school teachers from overtime, from keeping track of their time, and from mandatory meal and break periods.  See Cal. Labor Code…

L.A. City and County minimum wage goes up on July 1, 2017 to $10.50/hr. for employers with 25 or fewer employees, and to $12.00/hr. for employers with 26 or more employees.  Any employee who works 2 or more hours in a 7 day week in L.A. must be…