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My Employee has COVID, Who Must I Tell?

  • Gretchen Dugan
My Employee has COVID, Who Must I Tell? AB 685 – COVID-19 Employer Notice and Reporting Requirements: Signed into law on September 17, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom set forth standards that employers must follow to provide notice to employees and report information related to COVID-19 exposures to local public health agencies.  AB 685 specifically requires employers to provide the following four notices related to potential COVID-19 exposures in the...

New State Rules for Employing Minors

  • Margaret E. Long, Partner 
New State Rules for Employing Minors A new California law has created additional requirements for employers that have workers (including volunteers) under the age of 18. AB 1963 amends the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act to add to the list of mandatory reporters a human resources employee and frontline supervisor of an agency with five or more workers and that employs minors.This means that if an...

Suspension of Limitation on Retired Annuitant Hours for Disaster Recovery Efforts in Wildfire Impacted Counties

  • Gretchen Dugan
Suspension of Limitation on Retired Annuitant Hours for Disaster Recovery Efforts in Wildfire Impacted Counties Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-81-20 on September 25, 2020.  He ordered suspension of the retired annuitant work hour limitation of 960 hours per fiscal year in those counties in which he had declared a state of emergency due to the impact of wildfires.  The counties affected are as follows:  Butte, Del Norte, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Los...