Blog: The California Workplace Advisor

Unfortunately, this is no childhood bedtime story. An alternative title (with apologies to The Bard) could be “The Winter of our Discontent.” The unflappable Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has declared “it is inevitable that we will have a return of the virus” and that “how…

May 6, 2020 – Earlier today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a package of sweeping changes to regulations governing Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sexual harassment and sexual discrimination on K-12, college and university campuses throughout the United States. Slated to go into effect on August 14, 2020, the new changes will carry the…

Employers may now conduct mandatory COVID-19 screenings before allowing employees back into the workplace, according to new guidance issued on April 23, 2020 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In a dramatic expansion from its prior guidance regarding temperature testing, employers may now screen employees for COVID-19 so long as: (1) the testing…