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California recently approved amended California Family Rights Act (“CFRA”) regulations, which go into effect July 1, 2015. Attend this complimentary webinar to learn about a host of changes triggered by these amended regulations, including: New timing for responding to CFRA leave requests; A revised CFRA medical certification form; Reducing exempt salaries for intermittent CFRA leave;…
Continue ReadingThis complimentary webinar reviews California’s new paid sick leave law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014. This may be the most significant new California employment law in years, in that it will require virtually all employers to revise their policies and practices concerning sick leave-including employers that already provide more than the minimum…
Continue ReadingThis is an updated version of our employment law alert originally published on September 18, 2014, last revised on April 11, 2015. On September 10, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (Assembly Bill 1522) into law, which requires employers to provide accrued sick leave to employees. We believe that…
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Seminar: Thursday, April 16, 2015
San Diego Seminar: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
San Francisco Seminar: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Santa Clara Seminar: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Continue ReadingA variety of minimum pay standards in California will increase soon. 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, analysts, and others classified as…
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Continue ReadingIn a far-reaching decision applicable to many employers, a California Court of Appeal held in Cochran v. Schwan’s Home Services, Inc., 228 Cal. App. 4th 1137 (Aug. 12, 2014), that “when employees must use their personal cell phones for work-related calls, Labor Code section 2802 requires the employer to reimburse them.” Even where employees have…
Continue ReadingComplimentary Webinar: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 (noon to 1:00 p.m. PST)
Continue ReadingHixson Nagatani LLP is pleased to announce that three of its attorneys were honored in the 2014 Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine, published by Thomson Reuters and the publishers of San Francisco Magazine. Super Lawyers recognized Ray Hixson as a “Super Lawyer” in Northern California in employment and labor law. This honor is limited to…
Continue ReadingIn Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles (6/23/14), the California Supreme Court issued one of its most important decisions for employers in years. Iskanian holds that California courts are required to enforce class action waivers in employee arbitration agreements as long as the agreements are otherwise enforceable. Although the California Supreme Court had ruled in 2007 that…
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