According to California Chamber of Commerce Policy Advocate Rob Moutri, “California’s employers—both public and private—should be very concerned about SB 553 because it requires all employers to meet workplace violence standards that exceed even those applied to hospitals under present regul...
By January 1, 2021, employers withat least five employees mustprovide: (1) at least two hours of sexual harassment prevention training to all supervisory employees; and (2) at leastone hour of sexual harassment prevention training to all non-supervisory employeesin California ...
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: WHY EVERY STATE MUST ADOPT A COMPREHENSIVE WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION LAW Cornell HR ReviewHaynes, Mark
workplaceemploymentdiscriminationIn recent years, domestic violence legislation has migrated out of its traditional locus in family law and criminal law to include a rapidly growing body of employment law. The new laws respond to a relatively simple problem: Economic security is one of the most ...
GRACE is a collaboration between the Office of the Texas First Lady, the Governor’s Child Sex Trafficking Team, DFPS, and a group of faith leaders News Odessa and Midland Chamber of Commerce traveling to Austin in February Updated: Jan. 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM GMT+8| By Armando Gomez This...
With a little more than a week left in the session, House and Senate lawmakers passed a flurry of bills on Monday, some of which deal with education, workplace violence, and worker shortages. State Legislature State lawmakers hear public testimony on possible legislative actions to ruling on ...
Protecting against workplace violence. (protection for workers to be given by the federal, state and local governments)Protecting against workplace violence. (protection for workers to be given by the federal, state and local governments)Barrett, Stephen...
As wereported in mid-November, many of the bills introduced this year focused on workplace violence in a healthcare setting. But while that might be the sector where it’s most pressing, violence is a concern in many workplaces – so much so that California passed a bill that requires vi...
California employees can use paid sick leave if they or a family member need:Preventive care or diagnosis (e.g., flu shots) Care or treatment for a health condition Time after being the victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking...
2. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) will die a whimpering death in 2024.It pains me to make this prediction. In theory, a regional approach to homelessness policy makes enormous sense. In practice, though, the promise of regionalizing our homelessness response has—at ...