Complete a Personnel Action Notice (PAN) form for any employees who receive a change in pay rate due to the California minimum wage increase. COVID-19 Who –All California employers What –There are several bills enacted: Effective January 1, 2023, Assembly Bill 2693 updated the state’s CO...
Legislation passed by the Senate and Assembly and signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2009 made changes in the California Business & Professions (B&P) Code to increase the penalties for contracting without a license; eliminate sanctions against unlicensed owner-builders; and modify mechanic's...
Assembly Needs to Pass Bills to Protect New YorkersNow that the election is over, we need Albany to get back to workon some important legislation...Grisanti, Mark
Most significantly, the new laws greatly expand the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), create stringent workplace reporting requirements related to COVID-19, and clarify California’s year-old independent contractor law, Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5). Supplemental COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Assembly ...
The Impact of California's Digital Ownership Law Steam: 'You Don’t Actually Own the Games You Buy' A Steam DeckGeorgiy Lyamin/Unsplash One of the newly passed California Assembly Bills is the enacted California Assembly Bill 2426 which tries to address the ...
California Assembly Bill 5 puts a strict “ABC” test on independent contractors. If a job fails to meet any of the three requirements, a worker performing that job must be categorized as an employee and not an independent contractor. The three requirements are: That the worker is ...
The California Freedom to Act, orAssembly Bill 1825, prohibits public libraries that receive state funding from banning books based on race, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or political affiliation. Libraries also can't ban books based on the author or the book...
California one step closer to banning cat declawing after bill passes Assembly The California Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to ban cat declawing in the state. The bill will now go to the state senate. Apr 29 Kamala Harris set to make first major speech since 2024 election loss at...
SB 487 (Atkins) Provides additional safeguards for California abortion providers and other entities and individuals that serve and support abortion patients that reside in states with hostile abortion laws. A few other notable bills: Assembly Bill 12 limits the amount landlords can charge for a secur...
California is considering a bill that would make it the first state in the U.S. to require mental health warning labels on social media sites as a means to bolster online safety for children. The legislation, sponsored by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, aims to address the harmful impa...