CA employment law

What Severance Pay Packages Are Employees Entitled to – As Layoffs Continue to Mount?

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Severance Agreements
A recent CNBC report examined a variety of severance pay issues such as when you’re entitled to one, the difference between a furlough and a termination, and what are typical severance pay packages. The numbers are staggering. 6.6 million workers filed unemployment claims in one recent week. The previous highs wer...

New Bill Seeks to End Mandatory Arbitration Contracts

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment Laws in California, new employment laws
Vox reported in Mid-November 2018, that the federal House of Representatives is considering a new law which will ban businesses from forcing workers to sign mandatory arbitration clauses before they could be hired. New York Representative Jerrold Nadler and other House Democrats introduced a bill called the Restoring J...

New California Law Requires that Women Be on the Boards of Public Corporations

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, new employment laws
A new law, Senate Bill 826 will change the way corporate boards operate. The law, enacted in 2018, requires that a publicly-held corporation based in California must, by the end of 2019, have at least one woman on the board of directors of the company. Generally, the shareholders of a corporation elect the board of ...