Legal News

After months of confusion and pain surrounding the topic of independent contractors, we are practically giddy as we send this short and unambiguous legal update: Employers must start using the updated I-9 form issued by the Department of Homeland...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

AB 51 is the California Bill which attempts to ban certain mandatory employment arbitration agreements. It was scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2020, but was temporarily enjoined on December 30, 2019, after a coalition of business organizations...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

We don’t know about you, but we don’t feel like it’s the holidays until there are fancy tree and menorah displays in every office lobby around town, a plethora of chocolate and cookie assortments multiplying daily in the staff kitchen, and California...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

On September 18, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which adds Section 2750.3 to the California Labor Code. This new law, which was highly anticipated and has far reaching implications for California businesses, becomes...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

As we shared in our Client Alert last fall, the passage of SB 1343 required that employers with five or more employees provide, by no later than January 1, 2020, at least two hours of sexual harassment training to all employees in a supervisory...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

What is the Law? - California legalized medical use of marijuana in 1996. California then legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2016. California disability related laws, the Fair Employment Housing Act and CA Family Rights Act, require...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

The CalSavers Retirement Savings Program launched by the State of California is open for enrollment. California employers that have five or more employees and that do not otherwise offer a company retirement savings program are required to provide...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger

More than a dozen local governments throughout California have raised their minimum wage, effective July 1, 2019. For businesses with more than 25 employees, a new rate of $14.25 per hour was enacted in the City of Los Angeles, the unincorporated...By: Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger