Webinar Invitation: 2025 Mid-Year California Employment Law Update

The first half of 2025 has brought an epic array of legal changes for California employers. Attend our 2025 Mid-Year California Employment Law Update for updates on topics including:

• Meal Breaks:  California Court of Appeal ruling that signed employee meal period waivers are valid under certain circumstances. Registrants will receive a model meal period waiver form.
• Discrimination & Harassment:  Settlement of lawsuit against Apple alleging that it denied a retention bonus to an employee in his sixties because of age; California Court of Appeal ruling that harassment need not be to the victim’s face to be unlawful, affirming a $4 million jury verdict; Texas federal court ruling that vacated EEOC guidance related to misgendering employees and bathroom use, review of California laws against discrimination based upon gender identity or expression.
• Recission of NLRB Memoranda: The federal NLRB General Counsel rescinded memoranda (of the prior general counsel) on various important topics, including employee restrictive covenants, and “stay or pay” provisions. We’ll discuss where things now stand on key topics under federal and California laws.
• AI:  New California regulations related to automated decision systems (including anti-discrimination and record-keeping requirements), and review of a class action against Workday alleging that algorithm-based screening tools discriminated based upon age.
• DEI & Affirmative Action:  We’ll provide a high-level review of federal changes relating to DEI and affirmative action, including new updates since our more detailed May 8, 2025 webinar on these subjects.
• Layoffs: In light of the trend of increasing layoffs, we’ll provide a high-level review of special legal requirements when implementing layoffs, including federal and state law requirements for severance agreements. Registrants will receive a model form that can be used to document the reasons for employee layoff selections, and a model template for a disclosure that is required to be attached to severance agreements for employees age 40 and above affected by a group layoff.
• Key Updates in Other States: Some key legal updates in other states where many of our clients have employees, including Maryland (leave laws), New York (severance agreement requirements), and Washington State (sick leave, other leave laws, personnel files, employee right to termination information).

Attendees will receive detailed PowerPoint slides and several additional written handouts. Time will also be reserved for answering attendee questions.

Your presenters will be attorneys Ray Hixson, Brian Nagatani, Alexa Morgan, and Jay Wang, who are partners of the law firm Hixson Nagatani LLP. Hixson Nagatani LLP advises and represents employers in a wide range of employment law matters. The firm provides advice and counsel on proactive steps that employers should take to ensure compliance and minimize legal risks, including with respect to creating and updating personnel policies and practices, personnel-related forms, risk assessment of contemplated personnel actions, and managers' legal training. The firm also defends employers against actual and threatened employee claims, including claims made in state and federal courts, arbitration, and government agencies.

Continuing education credits: This program has been submitted to the HR Certification Institute and SHRM for review. Our application for renewal of California MCLE credit is pending approval.

Date & Time:

Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PDT

Registration fee: Clients of Hixson Nagatani LLP may attend for no charge by entering the promo code: HNFIRMCLIENT. Client status will be verified before approving registrations. For non-clients, there is a $75 registration fee to be paid at the time of registration. No check payments accepted.