Gov. Edmund G. Brown signed a bill today, prohibiting employers from requiring or requesting employees or job applicants to provide user names or passwords for personal social media accounts so employers can gain access to the accounts.
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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Veterans' Employment & Training Service (VETS) announced that it extended the 2012 deadline for federal contractors to submit their VETS-100/VETS-100A reporting forms from September 30, 2012 to October 31, 2012.
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The California Court of Appeal recently issued a favorable ruling in a case considering two important wage-and-hour rules: reporting time pay and split shift pay.
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In response to California's seven confined space fatalities in 2011, Cal/OSHA launched a statewide Confined Space Special Emphasis Initiative in February 2012. As part of this project, Cal/OSHA is offering two workshops.
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Legislation that would limit frivolous litigation connected with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed by the governor Wednesday.
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced a new 401(k) fee disclosure website as a resource for consumers.
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Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed California Chamber of Commerce-supported workers’ compensation reform legislation.
SB 863 (De León; D-Los Angeles) offsets necessary increases in permanent disability benefits and potentially lowers system costs for employers by:
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Governor Edmund G. Brown signed a pension reform bill that caps benefits, increases the retirement age, stops abusive practices and requires state employees to pay at least half their pension costs.
According to the governor’s news release, the pension reform law, AB 340 (Furutani; D-South Los Angeles County), requires current state employees and all new public employees to pay for at least 50 percent of their pensions and establishes this as the norm for all public workers in California. Importantly, these new reforms eliminate state-imposed barriers that have prevented local governments from increasing employee contributions. The new law also bans abusive practices used to enhance pension payouts.
The governor’s news release outlines the Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012 as follows:
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Governor Edmund G. Brown signed a bill that clarifies religious accommodation requirements for employers under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).
Existing state law protects employees from discrimination based on religious beliefs and also requires employers to reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious belief or observance, unless doing so causes an undue hardship.
The new law, AB 1964 (Yamada; D-Davis), clarifies that FEHA covers a religious dress practice (such as a head covering or jewelry) or a religious grooming practice (such as a hair style or facial hair) as a belief or observance.
Enforcement agencies have recently focused on employers who segregate employees wearing religious dress, such as head coverings, from jobs that involve public contact. Such employer actions, based on perceived biases or customer preferences, are unlawful (see HR Watchdog’s Religious Discrimination Suit Shows Need for Employer Awareness blog post).
Keep checking back for complete update on new 2013 employment laws. We will discuss AB 1964 and other new laws in greater detail, along with best practices.
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Employers must put all commission agreements in writing by January 1, 2013. By that time, any employee hired to perform work for commissions in California must receive a written contract that includes the method for calculating and paying the commissions.
Passed in 2012, this mandate of AB 1396 applies to employers located inside and outside California. It amended Labor Code Section 2751, which previously applied only to employers with no fixed California location.
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