There are several important changes to CA Employment Law listed below. Your Essential HR consultant will be sending more details soon if the laws pertain to you. Please note that you will need to update your employee handbooks for 2023. Contact your Essential HR Business Partner to learn more.
AB 152 – Extension of CA Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (SPSL) - Extends the California SPSL law from September 30, 2022 to December 31, 2022.
AB 2188 – Employment Discrimination and Cannabis - Effective January 2024, prohibits adverse action based on (1) an employee’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace, or (2) a drug-screening test that found the employee to have non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in their hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids.
AB 1949 – Bereavement Leave - Requires California employers with 5 or more employees to provide up to 5 days of unpaid bereavement leave.
AB 1041 – CFRA/PSL “Designated Person” - Amends CFRA and PSL to allow an employee to take leave to care for a “designated person” (any individual related by blood or who is the equivalent of a family relationship).
SB 1162 – Pay Transparencey and Pay Data Reports - Requires employers with 15 or more employees to include pay scale information in job postings and requires employers of all sizes to provide such information to current employees upon request. Also makes a number of changes to existing pay data reporting requirements.
SB 1044 – Retaliation and “Emergency Conditions” - Prohibits an employer, in the event of an “emergency condition” from taking adverse action against an employee.
AB 2693 – COVID-19 Notices – Extends statutory (AB 685) notice requirements until 2024; modifies COVID-19 notices to allow workplace postings in lieu of individual notices.
AB 1751 – COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Presumption – Extends the presumption enacted as SB 1159 until January 1, 2024.
AB 257 – “Fast Food” Sector Council - Establishes the Fast-Food Council for the purpose of establishing sector-wide minimum standards on wages, working hours, and other working conditions related to fast food restaurant workers.
AB 2183 – Card Check Under ALRA - Modifies the process by which agricultural employees select union representation; announced follow-up legislation in 2023 will amend this into a straight “card check” process.
