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What Are California Employment Laws 2024?

HR Lineup

California has long been a trailblazer when it comes to employment laws in the United States. As of 2024, California’s employment laws continue to evolve, reflecting the changing needs of its workforce and the broader societal landscape. The post What Are California Employment Laws 2024?

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Foster City New Minimum Wage Ordinance

HRWatchdog

Employers must pay the higher Foster City minimum wage to any eligible employees. The Foster City minimum wage ordinance applies to all employers who hold a business license from the city and who directly or indirectly employ or exercise control over the wages, hours or working conditions of any employee in Foster City.

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West Hollywood’s New Guaranteed Leave Provisions

HRWatchdog

Employers must also provide part-time employees with compensated and uncompensated hours in increments proportional to that accrued by someone who works 40 hours in a week. Sarah Woolston, Employment Law Subject Matter Expert, CalChamber.

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Changing an employee’s job title? What employment laws have to say

Business Management Daily

She wonders what employment law says about an employer changing such things without her consent. Title changes under at-will employment. The first thing Anne and any other employee in this situation needs to consider is their type of employment arrangement. The post Changing an employee’s job title?

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Stock Options Are Not “Wages” in California

HRWatchdog

In startup businesses, it’s not uncommon for employees to accept less cash compensation in exchange for stock options — the option to buy the company stock at a predetermined exercise price. In the future, if the stock’s value exceeds the exercise price, the individual can buy the stock at the lower price for a profitable investment.

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Contracting for Labor? Employers Cited for Subcontractor’s $1.6 Million in Wage Theft

HRWatchdog

The two grocers were held responsible for the subcontractor’s workplace violations because the grocers were considered joint employers of the subcontractor’s workers. Under the client-employer law, a client employer may have to pay for the subcontractor’s owed wages, damages and penalties, as well as workers’ compensation violations.

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Girl Scout Cookies and Employment Law – Almost Everything That HR Needs To Know

The Employer Handbook

Let’s see what my employment-law blogging buddy, Jon Hyman , had to say about this : Consider an employer with a strict no-solicitation policy that ignores Girl Scout cookie sales or March Madness brackets. Dana Wilkie writing at SHRM did a story on this a few years ago.