Each year, California enacts new laws that employers who do business in the state need to navigate. When in doubt, employers ...

The newly enacted Workplace Know Your Rights Act, California Senate Bill (SB) 294, adds Labor Code sections 1550 through 1559 and imposes new ...

California employers await judicial guidance on how to defend against class action-like lawsuits employees file on behalf of ...

State laws regulating the workplace are proliferating in the face of congressional inactivity, creating a complex employment ...

The court explained that California law has long held that workers occupying company property as part of their pay have no ...

Amid the flurry of employment laws signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2025, Senate Bill No. 294 creates the Workplace ...

This column was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Legislature has a bad habit of writing new law in the moment and paying little or no attention to its ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several new bills into law in 2025, with many of them addressing issues that continue to impact Californians such as consumer protections, labor and workplace ...

The wage orders governing employment in California generally define “employ” “to engage” or to “suffer or permit” a person to ...

This is the second concerted effort to decertify the union since it was voted in by teachers in 2017. In 2021, a petition for ...

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