Complimentary On-Demand Webinar: Changes California Employers Need to Make by January 1, 2026 (11-13-25 Webinar Recording)

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. Watch this on-demand webinar for a review of key changes that your company needs to make.

The webinar covers several 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, New York City sick leave law changes), Oregon (expansion of sick leave qualifying uses), and Washington State (expansion of sick leave qualifying uses during 2025).

Registrations will receive a PDF handout of the presentation slides. Registrants can download the program handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon after accessing the program.

This is an edited recording of a webinar presented by Ray Hixson, Brian Nagatani, and Jay Wang on November 13, 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.