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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.

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.

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.

A positive result for the California fast-food restaurant industry could be an influx of potential workers attracted to the higher minimum wage.; Reuse Permission A new California law is bringing change to fast-food restaurant chains.

Reuse Permission Workers who picketed 19 major Southern California hotels over the long holiday weekend were back on the job July 5, according to the Associated Press .

As a result of that passage of Proposition 22, 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.; Reuse Permission Ride-share companies such as Uber and Lyft on March 13 secured an important victory to preserve their independent contractor model in the state of California, under a decision from the California First District Court of Appeal .

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.