Legal Updates

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 on April 24, 2023. What

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. You can find the new

Effective February 3, 2023, the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards(“ETS”) have been replaced by the COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Regulation (“NER”).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 Cal/OSHA approved a third and

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 Standard Mileage Rate complies with

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 31, 2022. While most of

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 documents for I-9 purposes. Under

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 wear a mask in the

As a follow-up to our previous posting,  we would like to address a few additional issues. Note that this law affects employers with more than 25 employees and although the