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Employers with operations in California should be vigilant about
compliance with the protections against criminal record
discrimination in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act
(FEHA). The FEHA prohibits employers from inquiring into and using
specific criminal record information. The FEHA also mandates
procedures for evaluating such information and providing notice to
applicants. The Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) is
ramping up its efforts to enforce these protections, including
exercising its authority to issue investigative subpoenas, written
interrogatories, and requests for production of documents.
Today, the United States Department of Labor's (DOL) newly enacted rule concerning the classification of independent contractors was scheduled to go into effect.
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Hong Kong s Employment (Amendment) Bill 2021 (the Bill ), which seeks to increase the number of statutory
holidays under the Employment Ordinance, was gazetted on 5 March
2021.
Under the Bill, the number of statutory holidays will increase
from 12 days to 17 days progressively from 2022 to 2030. These five
new statutory holidays are:
The Birthday of Buddha, being the eighth day of the fourth
lunar month (starting from 1 January 2022);
The first weekday after Christmas Day (starting from 1 January
2024);
Easter Monday (starting from 1 January 2026);
Good Friday (starting from 1 January 2028); and
The day following Good Friday (starting from 1 January
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The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and
employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how
what s happening in Washington, D.C. could impact your
business.
Biz Groups Are a No on PRO. As the
Buzz mentioned last week, the U.S. House of
Representatives is teeing up a vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of
2021 (H.R. 842/S. 420) to occur sometime next week. In
anticipation of the vote, this week the Coalition for a Democratic
Workplace sent a letter opposing the legislation to members of
Seyfarth Synopsis:
Headlining
the number of employment-related bills California legislators
introduced by the February 19th deadline are those that would
extend COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave and provide other
leaves and accommodations.
After last year s pandemic-caused truncation of the 2020 legislative
session in which the governor signed only 372 new laws, the fewest
since 1967 many expected the introduction of a large number
of bills. Yet only 1,560 bills were introduced in the Assembly this year, the
lowest number in six years though there is no shortage of
labor and employment-related bills.
Below, we summarize the most significant labor and employment
bills introduced, which help mark the legislative playing field for