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Hixson Nagatani LLP is pleased to announce that the 2023 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 ReadingAs an update to our recent webinar Changes California Employers Need to Make by January 1, 2024, we’re providing this important update for employers with any employees (including remote) that work in the City of Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago City Council recently enacted a new ordinance that requires employers to provide employees who work in…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 77 minutes 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, 2024, and…
Continue ReadingA variety of exempt and non-exempt minimum pay standards in California will increase on January 1, 2024. 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,…
Continue ReadingAs time draws near for employers to update their employee handbook policies to comply with new laws effective January 1, 2024, we want to highlight the evolving legal landscape concerning unlimited vacation policies, so that employers with such polices can make informed decisions about continuing with and/or modifying those policies going forward. State Laws Requiring…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 1 hour Registration Fee: Free You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar! Failure to adequately protect confidential business information, and deficient protection of intellectual property ownership, can lead to disastrous consequences for employers. While many employers recognize the necessity of…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 2 hours 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…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 60 minutes. Registration Fee: $50 per attendee (Group Billing: For any employer that would like to be invoiced directly for their supervisors’ registrations, please e-mail [email protected]) Original Webinar Recording Date: April 27, 2023 You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar!…
Continue ReadingProgram Duration: 60 minutes. Original Webinar Recording Date: March 30, 2023 You may access the program’s handouts by clicking the gotowebinar handouts icon. Click Here to Register for the On-Demand Webinar! When terminating employees, a severance agreement is one of the more important tools that employers can use to mitigate legal risk of a costly…
Continue ReadingOn February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in the McLaren Macomb case that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act by offering employees a form of severance agreement that included standard non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses. We review this ruling below. Non-Disparagement Clause In McLaren, the severance agreement included the following standard…
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