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While pay transparency has become more en vogue in recent years, the California law could serve as a tipping point for many organizations, as it represents a significant expansion of talent — 19 million workers — who will now be covered under such legislation.

For the first time, that concept has been codified, with California Senate Bill (SB) 553 requiring certain employers in California to implement a workplace violence prevention plan.

A new California law aims to set a minimum wage and improve working conditions for thousands of the state’s fast-food workers.

In industry sectors with tipped employees (defined under the Fair Labor Standards Act as “any employee engaged in an occupation in which [the employee] customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips), wage-and-hour violations commonly occur when employers: ;Force employees to share tips (i.e., requiring servers to give a percentage of their tips to the establishment, or allowing managers and supervisors to participate in the tip pool); ;Keep tips (i.e., failing to pay tipped employees the federal minimum wage or pocketing workers’ credit card tips); ;Don’t pay overtime (i.e., failing to pay overtime based on the regular hourly rate or failing to pay overtime that includes service charges, commissions and bonuses); At the federal level alone, in 2024, the U.S.

The California law, known as the FAST Recovery Act , could set the minimum wage for the fast-food industry as high as $22 an hour next year and establish new workplace standards.

Save Reuse Permission Just days after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a measure designed to set wages and improve working conditions for the state’s fast-food workers, a coalition of restaurant owners have moved to at least temporarily block the legislation.

California’s new law mandates that large fast-food chain restaurants (those with 60 or more locations nationwide) must raise their minimum wage for workers in the state from $15 per hour to $20 per hour.

Save Reuse Permission Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, a new California law will allow employees to take five days off for reproductive loss.

The Future of Worker Protection Laws As a result of that passage of Proposition 22, Reathaford said it might be reasonable to see less paternalist employment laws — which seek to control employee behavior — and more laws that allow people to take charge of their own livelihoods.

California and Washington’s law requires employers to post salary ranges on job postings, while Rhode Island requires employers to provide a salary range to applicants or existing employees upon request.