Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Requirements

  Employee Compensation Employers must pay their employees for the time spent training. If that training occurs during an employee’s personal time after a full day of work, then overtime pay would be required. California law at Government Code 12950.1(a)-(b)…

January 15, 2020

CSLB Announces New Renewal Fee Schedule

Since its creation almost 90 years ago, the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) has carried out its mission to protect consumers by regulating California’s construction industry in the most financially responsible way possible. CSLB operations are funded entirely by license…

January 15, 2020

Employer’s Guide to the Revised Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard

CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS TITLE 8, § 1532.3 BACKGROUND In response to changes by federal OSHA to its standard on respirable crystalline silica, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board adopted those changes with little variation.  The California standard became effective and enforceable on…

October 5, 2018

Multiemployer Pension Update

Last week, witnesses from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and businesses (including the UPS) told the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans that should the estimated 150 to 200 multiemployer pension plans that are in danger…

July 2, 2018

DIR Registration Renewal

All contractors DIR registration will expire on June 30, 2018. Please note possible penalties below if registration is not renewed by due date per DIR: Register or Renew Registration costs $400, covers one fiscal year (July 1-June 30), and must…

June 12, 2018

Do You Know the Rules on When You Should Get Paid?

California’s prompt payment laws are scattered throughout the state’s Business and Professions Code, Public Contracts Code and Civil Code, and their applicability varies depending on the type of project, the type of payment, and who is paying. Keeping the statutory…

May 23, 2018

Safety and Health Update

INDOOR HEAT ILLNESS PREVENTION Labor Code § 6720 (enacted by Senate Bill 1167) requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to develop a proposed regulation for minimizing heat-related illness among workers in indoor places of employment. Current provisions…

May 23, 2018