E-Verify recently expanded its Status Change Report to flag invalidated work authorization documents across five categories instead of just one, which means more employers than before are going to see a name appear on that report and assume it is…
If your business has San Francisco employees, the eligibility clock you have been tracking for the city’s Paid Parental Leave Ordinance is about to change, and the change arrives on a size-based schedule that is easy to miss until it…
Most companies assume their existing D&O, E&O, EPLI, and cyber policies simply carry over to whatever new technology the business adopts. For years, that assumption was mostly safe, because AI use was not addressed one way or the other in…
Some employers treat an AI-assisted screening tool as a neutral filter, a way to remove human bias from hiring decisions rather than add to it. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA, Gov. Code § 12940(a)) doesn’t distinguish between a…
A lot of small-business owners believe that once the two employees involved in a harassment complaint have been split onto different shifts, the matter is handled. It isn’t. Separation stops the immediate contact. It does nothing to establish whether the…
Your coworkers started a friendly pool on when the company’s next product ships, and you put in twenty dollars without thinking twice. It felt like a fantasy football bracket, not a legal problem. California does not see it that way…
“I did everything my doctor told me to do. I still lost my leave.” That is what it feels like from the employee’s side when the second-opinion process goes wrong. Here is what actually happened in a real case, Brown…
You drive into the same gated lot every morning, and a camera reads your plate before you park. You never thought twice about it. It is just how you get into the building. This shows up more often than people…
Many employers believe that if an AI interviewing vendor built the tool, the vendor also owns the compliance risk. That belief does not survive contact with California law. AI-driven interview platforms, whether chat, voice, or video, are increasingly filling the…
Employers often assume a workplace safety citation gets easier to fight once nobody was seriously hurt. That is backwards under California’s Serious Accident-Related citation framework. Under Labor Code § 6432, Cal/OSHA does not need to show that an actual injury…
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