Welcome to this weeks Friday’s Five. In the last two weeks in early June 2016, many local governments in Southern California have passed laws increasing the minimum wage and the amount of paid sick leave benefits to employees. This Friday’s Five is a summary of five minimum wage and paid sick leave requirements that employers
Five things to know about biometrics in the workplace
Fingerprint scans, facial recognition, and retinal scans only a few years ago sounded like farfetched futuristic technology, but given the quickly advancing technology, these items are being used more and more in the workplace. Today’s Friday’s Five discussed five items California employers should know about their legal obligations regarding the employee’s biometric information obtained during
Employment law mid-year update and mixer
Join me for a seminar for a mid-year update on California employment law issues. Learn how to keep your company compliant with new developments in California. Topics will include:
- Top five pitfalls facing California employers in 2016
- How to prepare for the Department of Labor’s changes to the overtime rules going into effect on December
Five topics California’s sexual harassment training must include
Employers in California with 50 or more workers must provide at least two hours of sexual harassment 
prevention training to all supervisors. The requirements of what topics this training must include has changed since AB 1825 was passed requiring the training. For example, AB 2053 required as of January 2015 “prevention of abusive conduct as
Five employment law developments in California
A lot was happening this week in California’s employment law. This week’s Friday’s Five is a round-up on the highlights:
1. Los Angeles City Council votes to require employers to provide 6 days of paid sick leave.
The LA City Council approved a measure to require employers to provide employees up to six paid sick
New anti-harassment obligations effective April 1, 2016
California’s Fair Employment and Housing Council published new regulations pertaining to anti-discrimination and anti-harassment requirements effective April 1, 2016. Employers need to review and potentially update their policies in order to meet the new requirements.
The full text of the regulations can be obtained here.
Five general rules California employers should understand about employment contracts, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
Friday’s 5 is here. This post covers five issues that commonly arise when dealing with employment 
contracts and non-competition/non-solicitation agreements. It is a very broad area to discuss, so, as always, this is a very general overview. However, employers and executives alike should have a basic understanding about the legalities and enforceability of such clauses
Criminal background information in California: Five items to understand
Generally, California employers must comply with the following rules governing whether they may obtain criminal history information when conducting background checks for applicants or employees:
- Employers cannot consider prior arrests not leading to conviction in employment decisions.
- Employers cannot seek information or rely on information pertaining to referral to diversion programs.
- California prohibits employers from
Lessons from Yelp: Responding to employee complaints on social media
Today’s Friday’s Five focuses on five aspects of responding to employee’s complaints made on social media. Yelp has been in the news recently (Another ex-Yelp worker is calling the company out after being fired, CNNMoney; Yelp’s Tweet About Fired Employee Could Spell Legal Trouble, Inc.com [I was quoted in this article]), for
Five things to understand about conducting terminations
Terminations. It is not a subject you cover in management class, or any class for that reason. But yet the termination process is one of the more common business decisions that will receive the most scrutiny, and are probably the most legally challenged decisions in the workplace. In addition, terminations trigger immediate legal obligations that