Elizabeth B. McRee

Nov 15, 2024 | today.westlaw.com | Matthew W. Lampe |Elizabeth B. McRee |Howard Sidman |Bethany Biesenthal

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Nov 14, 2024 | mondaq.com | Matthew W. Lampe |Elizabeth B. McRee |Howard Sidman |Bethany Biesenthal

California recently imposed new mandatory disclosure requirements related to social compliance audits. On September 22, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed A.B. 3234 into law. The bill adds new, specific—and mandatory—disclosure requirements related to social compliance audits to the California Labor Code.

Jul 2, 2024 | mondaq.com | Matthew W. Lampe |Elizabeth B. McRee |Rick Bergstrom |Mark Earnest

The Situation: California's Private Attorneys' General Act ("PAGA") was the target of a November 2024 ballot initiative that, if passed, would have repealed the Act in response to perceived abuses and frivolous lawsuits. In a negotiated compromise brokered by California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders, business and labor groups announced on June 18, 2024, that a deal had been reached to pass legislation reforming PAGA and to withdraw the proposed initiative from the ballot.

Jan 3, 2024 | mondaq.com | Matthew W. Lampe |Elizabeth B. McRee |Aaron L. Agenboard |Rick Bergstrom

The 2023 California legislative session saw the passage of a number of new and important labor and employment laws. As in prior years, the California Legislature continued to expand employee leave rights this session. They increased the amount of paid sick leave employers are required to provide under California's existing paid sick leave law and established a new reproductive loss leave for employees. Noncompete agreements also remained at the forefront of California law.