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Happy New Year! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season and you ended 2018 on a high note. 2018 was a year of change in our coastal community and 2019 will bring new opportunities and new challenges to our members. The Santa Cruz Area Chamber looks to find many ways to service the greater Santa Cruz County business community. As expected, our 2018 legislative leaders in Sacramento were busy churning up new laws to help protect the consumer, our employees, our natural environment and a host of other issues that can impact our community. As a way to better understand the nuances of these new laws, the Chamber will be holding our annual Employment Law Workshop on January 16th lead by three distinguished lawyers from the Hopkins & Carly Law firm. You can register for this workshop by clicking here. Date: January 16, 2019 Time: 8:00am - 11:00am Location: Museum of Art and History (Garden Room) 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 This workshop has limited seating so we encourage our members to take advantage of this opportunity. Here are some of the issues to be discussed: • New legislation and regulations - clarification of the prohibitions on salary inquiries, new rules regarding settlement agreements and releases, expanded duty to provide training in prevention of sexual harassment, and more. • Wage and hour issues - the new “ABC” test for independent contractors, the “de minimis” doctrine, the interplay between bonuses and overtime, rounding practices, and more. • Discrimination, harassment and retaliation-EEOC guidelines regarding workplace investigations, obesity as a protected class, English-only rules, and more. • Privacy-court decisions regarding background investigations, monitoring employee activity on company phones, disclosure of private personnel information, and more NLRB and arbitration update the latest developments. Here are some examples of new California laws that took effect on January 1, 2019, which may affect your business. The minimum wage increased from $10.50 to $11.00/hour for people working at a company with 25 or fewer employees and from $11.00 to $12.00/hour for those working at a company with 26 or more employees. AB 1976 - Lactation Accommodation where employers must provide an area other than a bathroom for new mothers to express breast milk. SB 1192 - This law requires that any restaurant that sells a children’s meal must include a beverage with said children’s meal. The beverage of choice must be water, sparkling water, or flavored water or unflavored milk. Please considering sending a member of your company to keep you informed on these new laws and related employment law issues.
Happy New Year! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season and you ended 2018 on a high note. 2018 was a year of change in our coastal community and 2019 will bring new opportunities and new challenges to our members.
The Santa Cruz Area Chamber looks to find many ways to service the greater Santa Cruz County business community. As expected, our 2018 legislative leaders in Sacramento were busy churning up new laws to help protect the consumer, our employees, our natural environment and a host of other issues that can impact our community.
As a way to better understand the nuances of these new laws, the Chamber will be holding our annual Employment Law Workshop on January 16th lead by three distinguished lawyers from the Hopkins & Carly Law firm. You can register for this workshop by clicking here.
Date: January 16, 2019 Time: 8:00am - 11:00am Location: Museum of Art and History (Garden Room) 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
This workshop has limited seating so we encourage our members to take advantage of this opportunity. Here are some of the issues to be discussed:
• New legislation and regulations - clarification of the prohibitions on salary inquiries, new rules regarding settlement agreements and releases, expanded duty to provide training in prevention of sexual harassment, and more.
• Wage and hour issues - the new “ABC” test for independent contractors, the “de minimis” doctrine, the interplay between bonuses and overtime, rounding practices, and more.
• Discrimination, harassment and retaliation-EEOC guidelines regarding workplace investigations, obesity as a protected class, English-only rules, and more.
• Privacy-court decisions regarding background investigations, monitoring employee activity on company phones, disclosure of private personnel information, and more NLRB and arbitration update the latest developments.
Here are some examples of new California laws that took effect on January 1, 2019, which may affect your business. The minimum wage increased from $10.50 to $11.00/hour for people working at a company with 25 or fewer employees and from $11.00 to $12.00/hour for those working at a company with 26 or more employees.
AB 1976 - Lactation Accommodation where employers must provide an area other than a bathroom for new mothers to express breast milk.
SB 1192 - This law requires that any restaurant that sells a children’s meal must include a beverage with said children’s meal. The beverage of choice must be water, sparkling water, or flavored water or unflavored milk.
Please considering sending a member of your company to keep you informed on these new laws and related employment law issues.