Senate Bill (SB) 848, scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2024, requires employers with 5 or more employees to provide employees who have worked for at least 30 days with... Read more »
by Melissa Whitehead | | October 9, 2023 On October 4, 2023, Governor Newsom signed SB 616, significantly modifying the 2014 Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (“HWHFA”). The new law is effective... Read more »
On October 4, 2023, California’s Governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 616, which increases the amount of paid sick leave employers are required to provide to California employees. Beginning on January 1, 2024,... Read more »
On October 4, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) No. 616 into law. SB 616 amends California’s paid sick leave law to expand mandatory paid sick leave from three days... Read more »
Increases the number of job-protected paid leave hours employees can receive and use each year under state law. Extends some obligations and protections to employees covered by a CBA. Creates a partial... Read more »
Have you ever been in a bad employment situation but couldn’t bring yourself to leave? Nearly every client tells me about trauma they experienced at work, whether it’s an unsupportive or deliberately... Read more »
Thousands of pro-junta protesters demonstrated outside a French military base in Niamey, Niger on Saturday against France’s refusal to withdraw its military from the country despite demands from Niger’s junta. Protesters were... Read more »
Takeaway: Where an employer gave inconsistent reasons for the timing of and motivation for its decision to fire an employee, the employee was able to prevail on her claim that she was... Read more »
UK’s Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchel said he was “appalled” by human rights violations committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and called upon Eritrean forces to leave the country... Read more »