California
Glendale joins Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and several other localities that have enacted hotel worker ordinances in recent years.
West Hollywood employers should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of paid and unpaid sick leave, paid vacation leave and paid personal necessity leave and to show their compliance with the West Hollywood Minimum Wage Ordinance (MWO).
The 9th Circuit's ruling in Johnson v. WinCo Foods, LLC shows that employers can help shield themselves from liability by making job offers contingent on applicants passing pre-employment drug tests and/or background checks rather than onboarding applicants before testing them.
California employers breathed a sigh of relief after the Supreme Court's ruling that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts the state's Private Attorneys General Act.
A federal court appears to be the first to confront the question of whether California employers need to reimburse employees for remote work expenses even if they started working from home because of a government shutdown and not because of their employer's orders.