California legislature expands the definition of family member covered under the California Family Rights Act, broadens the prohibition on non-disclosure provisions in settlement agreements involving workplace harassment and/or discrimination claim and more.
California legislature expands the definition of family member covered under the California Family Rights Act, broadens the prohibition on non-disclosure provisions in settlement agreements involving workplace harassment and/or discrimination claim and more.
As of January 1, 2023, all California employers will be required to pay their employees a minimum wage of $15.00. However, a ballot measure recently filed with the State proposes increasing the minimum wage even further to $18.00 by 2026.
California’s drive toward a 15-dollar minimum wage continues. Effective January 1, 2022, the minimum wage for employers with 25 employees or less will increase to $14.00 per hour, and for employers with 26 or more employees, the minimum wage will increase to $15.00 per hour.
61 Places Where the Minimum Wage Is Rising in 2021
On 3/1/21 at 7:00 AM EST
A plan by Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage above $7.25 an hour, the rate it's been stuck at since 2009, hit a major snag last week. Depending on where they live, though, minimum wage workers in 61 places across the U.S. will still get a raise this year, courtesy of state and local laws that establish a higher hourly rate than the national benchmark set by Congress.
The fate of the Raise the Wage Act is unclear after the Senate parliamentarian, its chief rule-enforcer, ruled on February 25 that the provision to increase the minimum wage included in President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic relief plan does not meet the guidelines required to move forward in the fast-track process known as budget reconciliation. The House elected to leave the proposed increase in the legislation it passed over the weekend but the parliamentarian's ruling makes it highly unlikely that the minimum-wage hike will remain in the final version of the bill.