Employment Law

As 2025 approaches, California employers must prepare for new laws that will significantly impact workplace policies and operations. Understanding these changes in the law is crucial to ensure compliance. Knowing about these changes in advance can also help facilitate...

As an employer, there may come a time when you want to reduce an employee’s pay. Perhaps it’s for performance-related reasons: The employee hasn’t been doing their job as well as you hoped or hasn’t met certain production metrics and quotas, so you want to pay them...

Layoffs are not illegal under California or Federal labor laws, and they are a common way for companies to shrink the workforce. A company may have several reasons to reduce the number of employees on its payroll. Perhaps the company went through a period of growth,...

As an employer in California, federal and state laws legally obligate you to provide reasonable accommodation to employees with disabilities. It means making workplace adjustments that cater to an employee’s needs to allow them to perform their essential job duties...

There are constantly stories on the news about someone getting fired for a problematic tweet that went viral or a social media post that their employer feels casts them in a bad light. Is that even legal in California? Here are the basics employers need to know:...

If you would like to fire an employee you may want to move ahead with it as quickly as possible. However, you need to realize that the employee might not take it well and might accuse you of doing it for the wrong reasons. You are allowed to let most employees go when...

California offers employees more rights and benefits than many other states, and new ones are always being added to the law. Effective at the beginning of this year, private employers with five or more employees, and all public employers, are required to provide...

The news that an employee has become pregnant can create uncertainty about rights and obligations for the employee and the business.   The employee may be nervous about how her job will be affected and the business may be nervous about how to cover the position. In...

Employers and employees will sometimes get into disputes over dress codes. As an employer, you may be interested in instituting a dress code just to make your business look more professional or to fit with the atmosphere and aesthetic that you’re trying to create. But...

Safety is a big priority in the workplace, which is why many employers require their employees to submit to drug screenings either before they’re hired or during the course of their employment. As of Jan. 1, 2024, however, new legislation goes into effect in...