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California workers and employers can look forward to an increased minimum wage, new salary transparency rules, higher family leave benefits and more in 2023.
California’s new law (AB 1228) — signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 28, 2023 — will hike fast-food workers’ wages up to $20 an hour, starting April 1, 2024. It has sparked ...
Most of the time unemployment benefits are protected from wage garnishment. In some cases, unemployment benefits can be garnished if you owe income taxes, student loan debt or child support.
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
As of 2015, female workers make only 80 cents for every dollar earned by male workers thus putting the gender wage gap of 20%. [3] Over 38.8 billion dollars [4] is lost due to the wage gap between men and women. On October 6, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law and the amendment took effect on January 1, 2016.
The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
California implemented its $20 minimum wage law for fast-food workers on Monday, bumping pay up to 25% from the state’s $16 minimum. Impacting over 500,000 workers in the state, the mandate was ...
In California, the state minimum wage as of January 1, 2024 was $16 per hour. [6] [note 1] As of July 2024, California had the highest minimum wage of any state and was the highest in the country except for some part of New York (which also have a $16/hour minimum wage) and the District of Columbia (which has a minimum wage of $17.50/hour). [9]