Archive for September 2017

West Virginia Leave Laws Overview West Virginia does not have a mandatory paid sick leave law that requires employers to offer employees protected sick leave. However, if the employer has promised sick leave, paid or unpaid, then they may be under a legal obligation to provide sick leave to their employees. Some employers choose to…

Amazon and Seattle: Marital Discord Amazon and Seattle have been married for over 20 years, but it appears that both partners aren’t completely satisfied. In recent years, Seattle has taken a passive aggressive role in its partnership with Amazon by simultaneously blaming poor city planning on the company’s growth while passing multiple employment laws designed…

Advanced, Predictive Scheduling, or Restrictive Scheduling Although the movement started out slow with a San Francisco showdown in 2014, the movement for advanced scheduling has gained traction and is inciting discussions among lawmakers across the country. This leave many employers asking the question; “What are advanced scheduling or predictive scheduling laws?” Advanced Scheduling laws, also…

New  York City Passes Fair Workplace Ordinance on Fast Food and Retail Business On November 26, 2017, a series of laws named the Fair Workplace Ordinance takes effect. The Fair Workplace Ordinance is a set of scheduling restrictions imposed on both fast food and retail businesses and carries with it a set of heavy penalties…

Fair Workplace Ordinances Designed to Regulate Scheduling May 2017, saw a flurry of bills in New York City, all of whom were designed to restrict the rights of employers to schedule their staff. Together the five bills are called the “Fair Workplace” and they were signed into law by Mayor de Blasio on May 30,…

Fair Scheduling Law Starts July 2018 Calling it the Fair Scheduling Law may make the new Oregon law appear fairer, but to Oregon businesses, SB 828 means greater fines and penalties. Already cities with restrictive scheduling laws such as Seattle and San Francisco have seen drastic decreases in business growth and unprecedented job and income loss.  Yet that hasn’t stopped…

Legislating Away the Effects of the ACA through the Opportunity to Work Ordinance When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated benefits to all full-time employees, it did not mean that additional revenue appeared to magically cover the increased employee expense costs. As a result, some employers turned full-time positions into part-time positions to fill their…

If you have a business with employees scattered across California, then staying compliant with labor laws is getting to be a very difficult and almost impossible task. The patchwork of sick leave and minimum wage laws across California is getting more difficult for employers to keep up with. Emeryville is no exception. Despite the fact…