The COVID-19 pandemic added another layer of compliance challenges for California employers as they navigate paid-sick-leave mandates at the state and local level.
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Employers in the hotel, event center, airport and private club sectors and those providing services to commercial buildings must now give employees who were laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic preferential recall rights over other applicants. The requirements became effective last Friday, April 16, 2021, on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of Senate Bill 93 into law.
The Covered Employers
The hotel operations subject to the new statewide requirements are those consisting of 50 or more guest rooms or suites. The number of rooms or suites that determines coverage under the new law is the number as of December 31, 2019 or on the opening of the hotel, whichever number is greater.
Governor Newsom Announces Appointments
Sacramento, California - Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday announced the following appointments:
Danielle A. Lucido, 43, of Albany, has been appointed Chief Counsel for the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the California Department of Industrial Relations. Lucido has been Chief Counsel at the Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20, CIO & CLC since 2010. She was Staff Attorney at Worksafe from 2007 to 2010. Lucido was an Associate Attorney at Leonard Carder LLP from 2005 to 2007 and Law Fellow at the AFL-CIO General Counsel’s Office from 2004 to 2005. Lucido earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. She is a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee and Chair of the Worksafe Board of Directors. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $167,004. Lucido is a Democrat.
On April 15, 2021
Over 50 participants joined the Association of Language Companies (ALC) for its annual advocacy event, ALC on the Hill, to lobby US politicians on issues relevant to the language industry. The campaign, which wrapped up on March 19, 2021, consisted of virtual meetings with 70 offices from 17 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Among the most important topics covered, worker classification flexibility; that is, allowing translators and interpreters (T&Is) to work for clients and language service providers (LSPs) without necessarily being employees.
On March 6, 2021, House Democrats passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, an amendment to existing legislation intended to make union organizing and collective bargaining easier for employees.