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Back to Business: What is Contact Tracing and How Can Your Company Participate?

Netchex HR Blog

Help ensure the safe, sustainable, and effective quarantine of contacts to prevent additional transmission. requires that states, tribes, localities, and territories establish large cadres of contact tracers. . Please visit our continually updating library of coronavirus resources. Support the quarantine of contacts.

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Valentine’s Day: What Employers Should Know About Workplace Relationships

HRWatchdog

And if that happens, potentially severe consequences may result: If the relationship goes south, one of the employees may file a sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuit. First, employers can mitigate the risks through carefully drafted policies. Last is mandatory harassment prevention training. Not a member?

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Colds, Flus, RSV: What Can California Employers Do?

HRWatchdog

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that in California, the number of visits for respiratory illnesses that includes fever plus a cough or sore throat are at a very high activity level — and it’s straining California’s hospitals. CalChamber members can read more about Paid Sick Leave in the HR Library.

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How a Recent National Labor Relations Board Ruling Affects Workplace Rules, Employee Handbooks

HRWatchdog

This affects work policies that many employers already have in their handbooks, such as personal conduct policies, conflict of interest policies, etc., Practical Applications So, what does this decision mean for the policies California employers have in their handbooks? Roberts says. Not a member?

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Applicants’ Workers’ Comp Claim History Can’t Be Used for Screening

HRWatchdog

California workers’ compensation laws cover essentially every employer and require employers to maintain insurance to cover an employee’s work-related injury or illness. No Discrimination. Labor Code Section 132a prevents employers from discriminating against workers for suffering injuries in the course and scope of employment.

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California’s Ban on Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Invalidated

HRWatchdog

15, 2023), which invalidates California’s AB 51 — the latest in the long-running litigation over whether California may prevent employers from requiring arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. Bonta, et al. 20-15291 (9 th Cir. Not a member?

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California Family Rights Act Leave Raises Issues, Questions

HRWatchdog

Are we required to provide more time to her? There is no exemption from the requirement of working 1,250 hours, even if the reason that she did not have sufficient hours worked was due to a slowdown in work due to COVID-19. Sunny Lee, HR Adviser, CalChamber. Now she wants to take leave to care for her grandchild. Personal Leave.