2020 Brings New Law for Worker Classification
Beginning January 1, 2020, AB 5 (Gonzalez), which is Chapter 296, takes effect. This effective date is for provisions of the Labor Code, Unemployment Insurance Code, and Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders. Section One of the bill sets forth a number of statements of legislative intent that are not codified. The purpose of these “findings […]
2020 Brings New Lactation Accommodation Requirements for Employers
Beginning January 1, 2020, SB 142 (Wiener), Chapter 720, imposes numerous lactation accommodation rules on California employers. This new law requires an employer to provide a lactation room or location that includes prescribed features and requires an employer, among other things, to provide access to a sink and refrigerator in close proximity to the employee’s […]
2020 Brings Ban on “No-Rehire” Clauses
Beginning January 1, 2020, AB 749 (Stone), Chapter 808, adds Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1002.5) to Title 14 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CCP), and names it “Agreements Settling Employment Disputes.” The new law adds just one section to the CCP. This new law prohibits an agreement to settle an […]
2020 Brings Longer Claims Period for Employment Discrimination Cases
Beginning January 1, 2020, AB 9 (Reyes), Chapter 709, extends to 3 years the statute of limitations for complaints alleging employment discrimination (up from the current one year). The new law specifies the operative date of the verified complaint is the date that the intake form was filed with the Labor Commissioner. The new law […]
2020 and Another Minimum Wage Hike
Just like earlier this year, because of the enactment of SB 3 (Leno) in 2016, California’s minimum wage is going up again next month. On January 1, 2020, the state’s minimum wage will be increased for all sizes of businesses as “small employers” will see their third wage hike in recent years. Under prior state […]
Summary of Plastic Recycling Ballot Measure
(Editor’s note: Chris Micheli provides an analysis of the recycling initiative filed Monday.) CALIFORNIA RECYCLING AND PLASTIC POLLUTION REDUCTION ACT OF 2020 Filed November 4, 2019 SEC.1. Title This measure shall be known and may be cited as the “California Recycling and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act of 2020.”
Bases for Gubernatorial Vetoes and Governor Newsom’s Themes?
Now that the 2019 Legislative Session has concluded and Governor Gavin Newsom has acted on the 1042 bills that reached his Desk this year, it is of interest to review not only the measures that he signed, but also the 172 bills that he vetoed. In reviewing the bills that were vetoed this year, are […]
Summary of Uber/Lyft/DoorDash Initiative
(Editor’s Note: This summary by Chris Micheli discusses the initiative filed yesterday by Uber, Lyft and DoorDash as in response to AB 5, the measure signed by Gov. Newsom to establish the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision on worker classification into law.) Section 1. The proposed initiative adds new Chapter 10.5 to Division 3 of […]
The Political and Policy Tensions of AB 5 (Dynamex)
Some have questioned the business community advocating a “support, if amended” position on AB 5 (Gonzalez), the bill that seeks to codify last year’s California Supreme Court ruling in Dynamex Operations West regarding worker classification and impose the “ABC Test”. The Supreme Court and subsequent appellate court decisions have ruled up to this point that […]
An Update on Gubernatorial Actions Prediction
On February 25, on these pages, I made a guess regarding the number of bills that would reach Governor Gavin Newsom’s Desk this Legislative Session, along with the number of measures he would sign and veto. The following is an update on that prediction. You may recall that February 22 was the deadline this year […]