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Posted: | CDF Labor Law LLP Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
By: Preparing Your Business for Los Angeles County’s Recently Passed Fair Work Week Ordinance
Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted and passed the Fair Work Week Ordinance. It is now set to go into effect July 1, 2025. The ordinance applies to any retailer and grocer in
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
Recently, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed the Fair Workweek Ordinance, similar to the ordinance passed by the City of Los Angeles last year.
The ordinance takes effect July 1, 2025.
Covered Employers
The ordinance applies to retail employers who:
Are identified as a retail business in
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
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. The ordinance, which is similar to an ordinance issued by the City of Los Angeles, applies to retail employers with at
Posted: | CDF Labor Law LLP Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
By: LA County Expands California’s “Ban the Box” Effective March 28, 2024
Since California’s enactment of the Fair Chance Act (“Act”) over six years ago, California’s private and county employers with five or more employees have become well-acquainted with the Act’s general prohibition of employers asking applicants to disclose conviction history before
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
At the end of February, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance adding several compliance requirements to the California Fair Chance Act requirements for employers considering the criminal history of applicants and employees in making employment decisions.
The Fair Chance Ordinance (FCO) applies to employers with 5
Posted: | Littler Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
New Los Angeles County ordinance goes into effect September 3, 2024. The ordinance, which has a private right of action, requires significant changes to job postings, conditional offer letters, procedures for adjudicating criminal history, and related notifications for the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. The ordinance purports to cover
Posted: | CDF Labor Law LLP Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
By: Los Angeles’ New Requirements For Work With Independent Contractors
By: Los Angeles’ New Requirements For Work With Independent Contractors
California has gone to great lengths to limit independent contractor relationships and recently, the City of Los Angeles, created additional hurdles to the hiring and use of independent contractors or freelance workers.
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
On July 1, 2023, the City of Los Angeles Freelance Worker Protections Ordinance went into effect. The ordinance sets forth certain requirements for hiring entities retaining freelance workers operating within the City of Los Angeles.
Definition of Freelance Worker
Under the ordinance, a freelance worker is defined as an individual
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
On April 7, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council proposed an ordinance to increase the minimum wage for both hotel workers and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) workers.
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
On April 1, 2023, the City of Los Angeles’ Retail Fair Workweek Ordinance took effect, but the City had only issued a Frequently Asked Questions page as guidance. More recently, the City published rules and regulations as required in the ordinance.
The Rules and Regulations cover the following topics:
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
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
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
While the State of California and several cities across the state increased their minimum wages on January 1, 2023, some cities—including the City of Los Angeles—will increase their minimum wage in July 2023.
On February 1, 2023, the City of Los Angeles Office of Wage Standards announced the coming increase
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: California - Wage & Hour Tags: Los Angeles
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
Posted: | Littler Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
Starting April 1, 2023, Los Angeles retail businesses with at least 300 employees will need to comply with a new Fair Work Week Ordinance. This ordinance will require covered employers to provide a written, good-faith estimate of employee work schedules before hiring and within 10 days’ of a
Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: California - General Tags: Los Angeles
Today, November 29, 2022, the Los Angeles City Council passed the Fair Work Week Ordinance on the second reading. The ordinance now goes to the mayor for final approval. If approved by the mayor, it will take effect on April 1, 2023.
Covered Employers
Under the ordinance, covered employers are