Recently, in Bruni v. The Edwards Thomas Hospitality Corporation (Bruni), employers received a rare win. The California Court of Appeal determined that a wrongful discharge claim cannot be based upon an alleged violation of a municipal ordinance (a municipal ordinance is a
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Last night, June 17, 2021, the Cal-OSHA Standards Board voted to adopt the Revised Covid-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”). These new ETS revisions are a departure from the previously proposed, and later withdrawn revisions, that we wrote about previously (Updates to Cal-OSHA
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In a surprising move this week, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (“Board”) unanimously voted to withdraw the revisions just adopted by on June 3rd, to Cal/OSHA’s Covid-19 prevention emergency temporary standards (“ETS”) that we wrote about this past Monday (Updates
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On June 3, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board readopted Cal/OSHA’s revised COVID-19 prevention Emergency Temporary Standards. If these new standards are approved by the Office of Administrative Law in the next 10 calendar days, they are expected to take effect
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In accordance with Santa Clara’s Covid-19 Health Order (“Order”), all businesses within Santa Clara County must determine whether their employees, contractors, and volunteers have been vaccinated against Covid-19 by June 1st. An employer in Santa Clara County may comply with this Order
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The California Department of Health has announced that the State of California is set to fully reopen beginning June 15, 2021. When California fully reopens activities and businesses may return to their usual operations with limited exceptions based on the following general
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One of the most difficult parts of being an employer who pays commission is determining under the commissioned salesperson exemption (which has different requirements than the outside salesperson exemption)— is my salesperson exempt. Now, conducting a google search will likely lead you
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Yesterday, the CDC announced that but for a few exceptions, people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors. But do not throw your mask away yet! You still must wear your mask
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Effective today, May 12, 2021, San Mateo County has moved to the least restrictive, Yellow Tier, in the State’s reopening plan, joining San Francisco as the second Bay Area County to make the move to the Yellow Tier. Now, businesses in San
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In alignment with the State’s recommendation, San Francisco is the first Bay Area county to move to the Yellow tier, which is the least restrictive tier in the State’s reopening plan. Now that San Francisco is in the Yellow tier this allows
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