By Laurie Nooren, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP Are your employees paid bi-weekly (every two weeks), semi-monthly (twice per month), or weekly (52 payrolls per year)? Of all these options, you may be thinking “who would want to run payroll 52 times in a year?” However, we...
As you know, there was a significant update to the California Paid Sick Leave (PSL) law in SB 616, effective January 1, 2024. As we have been assisting our clients with updating their policies, an additional question has been asked by several of our clients. You may...
By Laurie Nooren, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP Top 10 Things on the 2024 HR To-Do List Holiday greetings to all. As the year end approaches (where did 2023 go?), you may be wondering what should be on your top 10 list of HR things to do for 2024. Here are our suggestions:...
Getting into the Weeds on SB 553- California’s Workplace Violence Prevention Standard By Jennifer L. Lippi, JD, SPHR, PHRca Earlier this month, in our 2024 legal update, we highlighted the key requirements of SB 553, which is California’s new workplace violence...
Artificial Intelligence has Entered the Chat… Kate Kriner, PHRca Artificial Intelligence or “AI” might be the word of 2023 (even though forms of AI have been around since the 1950s). Most recently Generative AI (ChatGPT being a well-known example) has been the topic...
By Laurie Nooren, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP For years, California courts have allowed the practice of rounding in/out times for the day up to the nearest quarter of an hour. This was before any real technology was available that allowed employers to easily calculate...
By Stacey Sommerhauser, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP The courts have been busy this summer as another case was decided, this time in the area of reimbursement of expenses for employees working remotely. If you have been our client for any amount of time, you know we have...
By Jennifer L. Lippi, JD, SPHR, PHRca California Employers have long been subject to the state’s Fair Chance Act, which among other things, requires employees to wait until a conditional offer of employment is made to inquire about or consider an applicant’s...
By Kate Kriner, PHRca As you may have discovered in the last few years with the huge increase in remote work, on-boarding now has some new unique challenges. One of the many challenges for employers is arranging for a physical inspection of the employment...
