2024 brought a host of challenges for California employers, with significant legal changes and new compliance requirements reshaping the workplace. Employers faced hurdles such as adapting to updated employment laws, implementing workplace violence prevention plans by July 1, 2024, and managing the $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers effective April 1, 2024.

Happy New Year!  2023 has been another challenging year for California employers.  Some of the critical issues for employers included returning employees to the office after COVID-19, the California Supreme Court’s ruling that employers could not enforce PAGA waivers in arbitration agreements, the continuing onslaught of PAGA litigation, and the new employment

Daniel Schwartz at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog writes about whether or not employment lawyers who advise their clients on social networking policies need to use social networking. I’ve writing on this topic before, but as the Internet becomes more and more dominate in everyday life, Daniel prompted me to revisit the issue. 

While I