Employers planning a layoff often check their headcount against the federal WARN Act’s 100-employee threshold, confirm they are under it, and move forward. That check answers the wrong question in California. The California WARN Act, Lab. Code §§ 1400 through…
Employers outside agriculture, construction, and a short list of other named industries have generally assumed California’s toughest heat rules simply do not apply to them. That assumption is about to break. Cal/OSHA released a substantially revised discussion draft on August…
Many California employers assume mileage reimbursement is a nice-to-have, something to adjust once a year if at all, as long as the number is in the right neighborhood. That assumption is comfortable. It is also wrong. The IRS just raised…
A lot of employers assume that once a hiring platform runs the scoring, the company can step back and trust the number. That assumption holds up right until a rejected applicant asks who reviewed the score and why it came…
The interview felt great. You never heard back. Somewhere between the interview and the silence, a hiring manager pulled up a public profile. A photo, a post, a comment thread from years ago. Nobody told the candidate that happened, and…
“You don’t have to lift anything heavy. We’ll take care of that for you.” That’s what one employee heard the week after a minor surgery, before anyone asked what the surgery was even for. No diagnosis. No accommodation request. No…
You didn’t get fired. You quit, because staying started to feel impossible. This shows up after a demotion nobody explains, a schedule that keeps changing without warning, a written warning that appears out of nowhere, or a manager who makes…
You wore something to work that meant something to you, and by the end of the shift you were told to take it off or go home. No warning first. This keeps showing up in different forms. A button, a…
Employers often assume that if the paycheck clears and the hourly rate is legal, the wage and hour side of the business is fine. That assumption misses most of where California claims actually come from. Misclassification is the first trap. …
Employers running background checks often assume that if a conviction happened somewhere else, it’s fair to weigh it however they see fit. San Francisco just narrowed that assumption. Effective Aug. 10, 2026, amendments to the city’s Fair Chance Ordinance bar…
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