Complimentary Webinar Invitation: Changes California Employers Need to Make by January 1, 2026

It's that time of year again, when California and many other states have enacted new employment laws going into effect January 1, 2026, and employers need to update their policies and practices to be ready for the new year. Attend this complimentary webinar for a review of key changes that your company needs to make. We'll discuss important new legal developments including:

• Stay or Pay Requirements: California's new prohibition of agreements that employees repay their employers for monetary amounts if their employment terminates, exceptions to the law, and onerous new legal requirements for sign-on bonus repayment clauses.
• Personnel Files: New requirement to include detailed training records in personnel files, copies of which must be produced to employees upon request.
• Leaves of Absence: Significant changes to California's leave law for attending judicial proceedings related to a crime committed against the employee or their family member.
• Minimum Pay Requirements: Increased California pay requirements for exempt computer software professionals, other exempt positions, and non-exempt (hourly) employees.
• Pay Transparency: Changes to California's pay scale disclosure requirement, and updates on pay transparency laws in other states.
• Notice Requirements: California's new requirement that employers provide employees with an extensive new form of written notice regarding their legal rights by February 1, 2026, annually thereafter, and to each new employee upon hire.
• Layoffs: Changes to the California WARN Act.
• Other States: Changes employers must make to comply with new laws if they have employees working in a variety of other states, including Colorado (expansion of FAMLI leave qualifying uses), Illinois (paid lactation accommodation breaks, leave for funeral honors detail), Minnesota (new paid leave law), New Hampshire (new childbirth related leave law), New York (lactation accommodation and paid pre-natal leave changes during 2025), Oregon (expansion of sick leave qualifying uses), and Washington State (expansion of sick leave qualifying uses during 2025).

Attendees will receive detailed PowerPoint slides and some additional written materials. Some 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. This program qualifies for 1.0 hours of MCLE for California attorneys.

Date & Time:

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST

Registration fee: This webinar is free of charge.

We anticipate that this event may sell out, and recommend registering as early as possible. Attendance in the webinar is limited to 1,000.