On-Demand Webinar: 2024 Mid-Year California Employment Law Update (6/10/24 Webinar Recording)

2024 has gotten off to a fast start, with a wide range of important employment law developments in the first half of the year. Our On-Demand 2024 Mid-Year California Employment Law Update covers the following topics:

• Wage & Hour Law: New form of mandatory new hire notice to non-exempt employees under California Labor Code Section 2810.5; federal law increases in the minimum salary required for overtime exemptions; California Supreme Court rulings that further clarify what counts as compensable time (in the context of security checks, travel time, and having to remain onsite without working), and that an employer’s good faith belief in the compliance of its itemized wage statements (pay stubs) barred an award of penalties.
• Discrimination & Retaliation: U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the requirement to show “significant harm” for a discrimination claim, and in another case held that an employee was not required to prove retaliatory intent to succeed with a retaliation claim.
• Non-Compete & Non-Solicitation Agreements: New regulation by the Federal Trade Commission that bans most non-competition agreements, and requires employers to provide formal notice to employees with invalid non-competes that they are no longer bound by them; National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) actions against non-competes and non-solicits; interaction between federal and state laws.
• Outside Employment: NLRB opinion that a policy restricting outside employment violates federal law.
• Workplace Violence: Checklist to ensure that your company has satisfied California’s workplace violence prevention requirements that took effect July 1, 2024; review of recently published Cal-OSHA guidance regarding the same.
• Arbitration: California court ruling that an employee was not required to arbitrate claims of sexual harassment under her arbitration agreement.
• Significant Jury Verdicts: Lessons for all employers from an $80 million jury verdict for three Zurich employees who were terminated for taking unofficial time off allegedly approved by their supervisors; $14 million jury verdict for UCLA professor who claimed discrimination and constructive discharge.
• Key Updates in Other States: Some key legal updates in other states where many of our clients have employees, including Illinois (new rules on mandatory Illinois paid leave, and Chicago paid leave and sick leave, and Cook County paid leave), Minnesota (sick and safe time), New York (requirement to post and distribute the New York City Workers Bill of Rights, new state laws on paid lactation breaks, new requirements for independent contractor agreements, new paid prenatal leave requirement), and Oregon (family and medical leave changes).

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This is an edited recording of a webinar presented by Ray Hixson, Brian Nagatani and Mary Wang on July 24, 2024. Please note that the webinar does not address changes in the law since the original program date. Please also note that the webinar provides only general information about the law, and does not constitute legal advice. Companies or individual seeking legal advice should retain counsel.

Please note that HR and attorney continuing education credits are not available for watching this recorded program.

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