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Jan 13, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine L. Hazany |Charles Thompson |Karen F. Tynan
Wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, causing death, massive destruction of property, and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. President Biden has approved a “Major Disaster Declaration” for California because of the wildfires. This disaster also impacts employers’ obligations under California law, including California’s workplace safety and health statute, California wage and hour law, Cal-WARN, and the Los Angeles Fair Work Week ordinance.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Karen F. Tynan |Catherine L. Hazany |Zachary Zagger
Quick HitsWildfires sweeping through the Los Angeles area have prompted evacuation orders affecting tens of thousands of residents and creating dangerous conditions for travel. Employers affected by the disaster may need to consider their emergency preparedness plans, immediate workplace safety risks, and employment and staffing concerns while maintaining critical business functions.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ogletree.com | Charles Thompson |Karen F. Tynan |Catherine L. Hazany |Zachary Zagger
Quick HitsWildfires sweeping through the Los Angeles area have prompted evacuation orders affecting tens of thousands of residents and creating dangerous conditions for travel. Employers affected by the disaster may need to consider their emergency preparedness plans, immediate workplace safety risks, and employment and staffing concerns while maintaining critical business functions.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine L. Hazany
On July 2, 2024, Los Angeles City Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martínez and Katy Yaroslavsky introduced a motion to the City Council to expand the fair workweek predictable scheduling ordinance to fast-food workers. On September 25, 2024, various business interests filed letters of opposition to the proposed ordinance.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Catherine L. Hazany
Skip to main content October 16, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 290 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
ogletree.com | Catherine L. Hazany
Quick HitsBusiness groups recently filed letters of opposition to a Los Angeles City Council motion to expand the city’s fair workweek predictable scheduling ordinance to fast-food workers. The Los Angeles Fair Work Week Ordinance, which took effect in April 2023, applies to retailers with 300 or more employees globally that have employees who work in the City of Los Angeles at least two hours per workweek.
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May 12, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Catherine L. Hazany
On April 23, 2024, the Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors voted to implement a fair workweek predictable
scheduling ordinance, which will go into effect on July 1, 2025.
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May 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine L. Hazany
On April 23, 2024, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to implement a fair workweek predictable scheduling ordinance, which will go into effect on July 1, 2025.
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Mar 8, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine L. Hazany |Zachary Zagger
Part of a recently passed pay predictability ordinance in Los Angeles is already causing some confusion for employers over a provision requiring retail employers to pay workers a premium for working a second shift within ten hours of the first shift. Such tightly scheduled shifts often occur when a worker is needed to close and then open the next day, referred to as “clopening” shifts.
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Feb 22, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Catherine L. Hazany |Zachary Zagger
Retail employers in Los Angeles will soon be required to provide employees with written, good faith estimates of their schedules and offer extra hours to current employees before hiring new workers under a new ordinance that takes effect on April 1, 2023. The “Los Angeles Fair Work Week Ordinance” makes the city the latest jurisdiction to pass a predictable scheduling law, joining Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, Philadelphia, and Oregon, among others.
