Blog: The California Workplace Advisor

Overlapping but fundamentally different legal developments in the last few weeks have transformed how the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) defines and applies “amateurism” – the core concept by which the NCAA’s more than 1000 member institutions and conferences collectively relate to college athletes, define and limit their rights, and seek to differentiate college athletics…

On March 19, 2021, Governor Newsom injected new life into previously expired statewide COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (SPSL) benefits. By signing Senate Bill (SB) 95, eligible California employers must once again provide covered employees with SPSL for COVID-19 related absences in addition to existing paid time off and vacation benefits. Though employers have a…

This year saw a host of changes to California employment laws, and not all of them resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the laws changed rapidly to address the needs of employees and employers during these increasingly uncertain times, California laws changed significantly with regard to all sorts of everyday activities. Among other things: Employees…

As of last week, employers, co-workers, and teachers may now seek ex parte gun violence restraining orders against individuals shown to present a substantial likelihood of danger of self-harm or harm to others under A.B. 61. Signed into law by Governor Newsom on October 11, 2019, and effective as of September 1, 2020, A.B. 61…

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…