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2025 Employment Practices Audit
The beginning of 2025 presents an ideal opportunity for companies to perform a California employment law audit. This proactive step ensures your policies align with current regulations, your managers receive proper training, your company retains required records for the appropriate duration, and will greatly reduce potential PAGA penalties under the 2024 PAGA reform. To help
Key Action Items for California Employers Under The New PAGA Reform Law
California employers will be receiving immediate relief under the new Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) reform law. The California Legislature passed AB 2288 and SB 92 on June 27, 2024, and Governor Newsom signed both bills into law on July 1, 2024. Our analysis of the reform is set forth in our previous article here
The Five Pitfalls: Strengthening Your Defense in Employment Litigation
In legal disputes, five primary challenges can significantly complicate the defense of an employment lawsuit:
1. Failure to document routine employment issues.
In any employment litigation, whether it’s wage and hour claims, leave issues, or harassment claims – the amount of documentation an employer has dramatically increases the odds of prevailing in litigation. I would
Five Steps To Reduce Employment Lawsuits in California
Employers often ask me the question of what steps can they take to stop employment litigation. My response usually begins with a warning that there is nothing an employer can do that will prevent a frivolous lawsuit. However, employers can control their actions and decisions, and by reviewing a few items on a regular basis,
Costly mistakes for startup companies and how to avoid them
Understandably, entrepreneurs’ main concerns are shipping great products and making sure they can meet the next payroll. As your company grows, regardless of what industry you are in, tech, biotech, or a restaurant, it is critical that the founder devote some time and effort into ensuring employment law compliance. Investors will demand this during the