Legal Updates

A new Federal law named the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) with sweeping new requirements for business entities will go into effect on January 1, 2024.

In support of the rapidly growing freelance workforce, the City of Los Angeles has issued the Freelance Worker Protections Ordinance (“FWPO”) which went into effect

New Form I-9The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a new Form I-9 on August 1, 2023 that must be used by all U.S. employers.

Effective February 3, 2023, the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards(“ETS”) have been replaced by the COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulation (“NER”). Recall that in May, 2022

California Labor Code Section 2802 requires employers to reimburse employees for business expenses, and California courts have held that reimbursing employees’ mileage at the IRS

On May 5, 2022 Cal/OSHA approved a third and final version of the  COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards(“ETS”) which will remain in effect until Dec

On May 1, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ending its temporary COVID-19-related exception of allowing employers to use expired List B identity

The Act gives employees the option to invalidate arbitration agreements and class or collective action waivers with respect to sexual assault and sexual harassment claims that arise after March 3, 2022.

Previously (before the temporary mask mandate for all persons which expired February 15th, 2022), Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards did not require fully vaccinated employees to