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Webinar: Thursday, May 8, 2025 (noon to 1:00 p.m. PDT) Registration Fee: Free Click Here to Register! Since taking office on January 20th, the new federal administration has moved swiftly to attack diversity, equity, and inclusion policies it believes impermissibly grant preferential terms and conditions of employment to individuals based on their race, sex, or…
Continue ReadingThe current federal administration has challenged diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives through a series of controversial executive actions targeting workplace diversity programs. Specifically, during his first week in office, President Trump issued two sweeping executive orders that dramatically restricted purportedly “illegal” DEI efforts across federal agencies and private sector organizations. Simultaneously, through executive order,…
Continue ReadingHixson Nagatani LLP is pleased to announce that Alexa Morgan and Jay Wang have joined the firm as partners. Ms. Morgan and Mr. Wang are experienced, well-rounded employment lawyers who significantly expand the firm’s expertise regarding recent changes involving federal executive orders and DEI initiatives, and our employer litigation defense capacities (including defense of class/representative action cases).…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 64 minutes. Original Webinar Recording Date: April 23, 2024 You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar! When it comes to employment law compliance, there’s no document more important than your employee handbook. Handbooks necessarily address a legion of legal requirements,…
Continue ReadingProgram 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…
Continue ReadingHixson Nagatani LLP is pleased to announce that the 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine (published by Thomson Reuters and the publishers of San Francisco Magazine) recognized Ray Hixson and Brian Nagatani as “Super Lawyers” in Northern California in employment and labor law. This honor is limited to those evaluated to be within the top…
Continue ReadingEmployment Law Alert: California Publishes Model Whistleblower Notice For Posting By January 1, 2025
As we have discussed in some of our webinars this year, California Assembly Bill 2299 was enacted to require employers to post certain information regarding employee rights and responsibilities under whistleblower laws by January 1, 2025. The law provides that an employer will be deemed in compliance with this requirement if it posts a model…
Continue ReadingA variety of exempt and non-exempt minimum pay standards in California will increase on January 1, 2025. Exempt Software Professionals In order to treat software professionals as exempt from overtime, California employers generally need to meet the requirements of the “computer software professional” exemption. The term “software professionals” covers positions such as software engineers, programmers, developers,…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 1 hour Registration Fee: Free You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon after accessing the program. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar! It’s that time of year again, when California and many other states have enacted new employment laws going into effect January 1, 2025, and employers need…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 1.25 hours Registration Fee: $60 per registrant. (Group Billing: For any employer that would like to be invoiced directly for their employees’ registrations, please e-mail [email protected]) You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon after accessing the program. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar! Have your supervisory employees attend this…
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