On-Demand Webinar: 2025 California Employment Law Update (1-29-25 Webinar Recording)

Program Duration: 1 hour

Registration Fee: $75 per registrant. Clients of Hixson Nagatani LLP may register at no charge by entering the promo code: HNFIRMCLIENT. Registrants who previously paid to attend the live version of this webinar may register for the on-demand webinar free of charge by entering the promo code: PAIDFORLIVE. Promo code eligibility will be reviewed for all registrants before approving the registration.

You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon after accessing the program.

We're offering this in-depth 2-hour on-demand webinar to catch you up on a wide range of important new legal developments for California employers. (This program will cover additional/updated content, and provide more written materials, than our November 13, 2024 60-minute webinar Changes California Employers Need to Make by January 1, 2025.)

We'll cover topics including:

  • Updating Employee Handbooks: How California employers need to update their employee handbooks to comply with changes in the law for 2025, including with respect to EEO policies, sick leave, paid family leave, leave for jury duty, court testimony, and victims of crime or abuse; and, new laws in other states/cities affecting handbook policies (e.g., Alaska, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Oregon).
  • Anticipating Federal Changes: This webinar will occur on the 9th day of the new Presidential administration; we'll discuss what will have already changed and anticipated potential future changes for employers.
  • "Stay or Pay" Clauses: We'll discuss the NLRB's recently announced position on what amounts to an unlawful "stay or pay" clause, and updates that employers should make to their terms and conditions for sign-on bonuses, retention bonuses, relocation packages, and employee educational assistance programs.
  • Investigations: Instructive new court rulings regarding workplace investigations, including EEOC's lawsuit against SkyWest where it alleged that human resources conducted only a "surface-level investigation" ($2.17 million jury verdict), and a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruing that the employer could be held liable in a case of alleged harassment of an employee by a coworker in online social media where the employer "slow-walked" its investigation.
  • Hiring: New laws affecting hiring practices, including new background check laws in Los Angeles County and San Diego, and new California law affecting driver's license requirements.
  • Pay Transparency Laws: As more states have continued to pass pay transparency laws, we'll review new developments, and highlight differences between California and other states' laws.
  • New Notice & Disclosure Requirements: A roundup of new notice and disclosure requirements in California and some other states, including new employer notice requirements to provide list of employees’ rights and responsibilities under Labor Code whistleblower laws, and notice requirements regarding social compliance audits.
  • Independent Contractors: Recently enacted legal requirements for freelance worker agreements in California, and other jurisdictions; review of how they interact with California's notoriously strict "ABC Test" for determining contractor versus employee status.
  • Wage & Hour Law Update: California and federal law increases to exempt employee salary requirements; special heightened pay requirements for software professionals; minimum wage requirements effective January 1, 2025.

Registrants can download the program handouts by clicking the gotwebinar handouts icon after accessing the program.

This is an edited recording of a webinar presented by Ray Hixson and Brian Nagatani on January 29, 2025. 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.

You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon after accessing the program.

Additional on-demand webinar are available on our website's resources page.

Employers seeking further guidance may contact any of the firm's attorneys.

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