Employer Updates

Employer Updates for 2018

• Updates to Post in the Workplace
• Employer Protection for Defamation of Character
• Starbucks issue with unclocked overtime in California
• Expanded national origin protection
• Menu labels, ABC test, PLSO, National Origin
• Sexual harassment training for all
• Clarifies existing salary law as regards prohibition of employer using employee’s salary history as a basis for employment or compensation.
• Expands records to be furnished to employee upon request to include payroll records.
• New lactation law requires a private place, not a bathroom.
• Employer Protection for Defamation of Character

Employer Updates for 2017

• Changes to Minimum Exempt Wages
• California Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave
• Domestic Violence Notification
• OSHA
• EEOC Protected Activity
• EEOC Promising Practices
• Agriculture Minimum Wage
• Janitorial Services Harassment Training
• Pay Equity Expanded to Race and Ethnicity
• Single User Toilet Facilities

New Federal Posting requirements effective 8.1.16

• Federal Minimum Wage – Employee rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act – Prohibits most private employers from using lie detector tests