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In addition to the proposed permanent standard, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law on September 29, 2022, further extending the state’s COVID-related workplace laws: AB 2693 modifies employers’ notice requirements regarding COVID-19 workplace exposures and extends these obligations until January 1, 2024; and AB 1751 extends the presumptions under California law that certain workers’ compensation claims related to COVID-19 illness… [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 3:26 pm
"Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID-19 State of Emergency will end on February 28, 2023"Here's some nice language from a published opinion here about writ relief: It is appropriate to review discovery orders via writ of mandate when “we are presented with a question of first impression which is of general importance to the trial courts and to the profession, and in conjunction with which general guidelines can be laid down for future… [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 12:12 pm by Neda Hefzi
On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 152, which (1) extends CSPSL through December 31, 2022, (2) provides employers the ability to require an additional diagnostic test before employees use CSPSL in certain circumstances, and (3) creates a grant program to assist qualified small business and nonprofits with grants for costs incurred for CSPSL provided in 2022. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 6:44 am by Kyle Hulehan
An under-the-radar piece of legislation will functionally increase the top marginal income tax rate by 1.1 percent in 2024 (with administrative authority to bring it to 1.5 percent), while a pending ballot measure would add a new 1.75 percent surcharge on the income of the highest earners, and Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is proposing a windfall profits tax on top of everything else. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 8:46 am by Jonathan M. Gitlin
At the end of September, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 984 into law, which makes the e-ink displays a legal alternative to the traditional metal plate. [read post]
” On September 27, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed unique legislation that seeks to protect abortion data privacy by preventing out-of-state law enforcement officers from executing search warrants on California electronic communication and computing services companies for the purpose of investigating another state’s abortion-related offenses. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 10:10 am by Tom Smith
In response to $6 per gallon gasoline prices, which are nearly 70% higher than the $3.81 national average, California Governor Gavin Newsom will convene a special session of the state legislature in December to enact a “windfall profits tax” on oil companies that he said are price gouging. [read post]
11 Oct 2022, 2:36 pm by Kaufman Dolowich Voluck
by Kathleen Catlos, Esq. and Regan Heslop, Law Clerk, KDV On September 27, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 1162, which requires private employers to add pay ranges to job postings and provide them to current employees, upon request. [read post]
In 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB5 into law, requiring companies like Uber and Lyft to treat their workers as employees. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 12:18 pm by Sara Alexis Levine Abarbanel
On September 29, 2022, a day before California’s 2022 COVID Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Law was set to expire, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 152, extending the law through December 31, 2022. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 2:47 pm
Governor Newsom Announces Judicial AppointmentsGovernor Gavin Newsom today announced his nomination of Justice Therese Stewart to serve as Presiding Justice of the First District Court of Appeal, Division Two; Judge Gregory Weingart to serve as an Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division One; and Judge Victor Viramontes to serve as an Associate Justice of the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 9:29 am by Joseph D. Jean and Logan Burkhead
On September 19, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an equivalent law, the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act (AB-2777), which similarly suspends the statute of limitations for civil claims of sexual assault and other vicarious offenses arising out of that conduct starting January 1, 2023. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal DataVault Requests US Election Agency’s Advice to Send NFTs as a Campaign Fundraising Incentive Cointelegraph – Turner Wright | Published: 10/4/2022 The legal team behind nonfungible token (NFT) firm DataVault Holdings requested an advisory opinion from the FEC on using NFTs for campaign fundraising efforts. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 11:10 pm by Jeffrey S. Horton Thomas
Three bills signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last week once again modify employers’ obligations to California employees who are exposed to or contract COVID-19. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 1:21 pm by Nonprofit Blogger
Late last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill (SB 834) that would have revoked the tax-exempt status of nonprofit in California that the state Attorney General determined engaged in treason, insurrection, conspiracy, government overthrow, or mutiny by members... [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 11:56 am by Cannabis Law Group
California employees are now protected from off-the-clock cannabis use, thanks to a new law recently signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 10:49 am by Michelle Harrington
Last week, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 1044 (Labor Code §1139), which bans an employer, in the event of an emergency condition, from taking or threatening adverse action against any employee for refusing to report to, or leave a workplace or worksite within the affected areas, because the employee has a reasonable belief that the workplace or worksite is unsafe. [read post]