December 16, 2022
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Category: Agency Enforcement

California Privacy Act Covers Employers Beginning 1/1/2023; Still Awaiting Regulatory Guidance

For employers that operate in California, the exemption from coverage under the state’s sweeping California privacy law is about to expire, and as of January 1, 2023, any employer with at least $25 million in gross annual revenue will be required to comply. The 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the 2020 California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA),...
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November 07, 2022
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Category: State and Local Law

Interstate: November 2022 Update

We are pleased to present the latest edition in our ongoing “Interstate” memo series, a service we provide on a periodic basis to provide timely updates on new state and local workplace compliance developments. This latest edition of Interstate covers notable state and local developments that have occurred since our last update in September. Members of the Center for Workplace...
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October 21, 2022
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Category: State and Local Law

California Enacts Several New Laws Expanding and Extending Workplace Protections

Once again burnishing its reputation as the most progressive U.S. state with respect to imposing workplace mandates on private sector employers, California recently wrapped up its 2022 legislative session by enacting a number of labor and employment bills that create or expand worker protections, including: Mandatory Pay Transparency and Expansion of Pay Data Reporting Criteria Wage Setting for Fast Food...
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October 12, 2022
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Category: Featured

NYC Delays Enforcement of Its Artificial Intelligence Bias Audit Law Until April 15, 2023

The New York City Department of Consumer and Workplace Protection (DCWP) announced this week that, based on the “high volume” of public comments received, it has delayed from January 1 until April 15, 2023, its enforcement of the City’s controversial artificial intelligence law (Local Law 144). The AI law is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2023. The...
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October 07, 2022
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Category: State and Local Law

NYC Issues Proposed Implementing Rules for Its New Artificial Intelligence Bias Audit Ordinance

As we previously reported, New York City adopted a new ordinance late last year (Local Law 144) that requires covered employers using artificial intelligence (AI) in their hiring efforts to conduct an independent bias audit of the AI tool and to publish the results of that audit. The ordinance, which is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2023,...
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September 23, 2022
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Category: Compensation

California on Verge of Expanding Pay Transparency and Wage Reporting Requirements

The state of California, one of two states (Illinois being the other) with pay reporting requirements in effect, is about to expand those requirements as well as add California to the growing list of state and local jurisdictions that require employers to include salary information in job postings. The new requirements are contained in a bill (S.B. 1162) recently approved...
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September 09, 2022
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Category: State and Local Law

Interstate: September 2022 Update

We are pleased to present the latest edition in our ongoing “Interstate” memo series, a service we provide on a periodic basis to provide timely updates on new state and local workplace compliance developments. This latest edition of Interstate covers notable state and local developments that have occurred since our last update in July. Members of the Center for Workplace...
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July 15, 2022
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Category: State and Local Law

Interstate: July 2022 Update

We are pleased to present the latest edition of our “Interstate” memo series, a service we provide to nation-wide employers on a periodic basis when state and local legislatures are active to help them stay on top of important new state and local workplace compliance developments. Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.
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July 07, 2022
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Category: Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Supreme Court Rules Arbitration Can Trump Certain California “PAGA” Claims

The U.S. Supreme Court, in its most recent arbitration decision, has ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts an interpretation of California law that prohibits enforcement of individual arbitration agreements under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). As a result of the High Court’s ruling, an employee who has entered into a valid arbitration agreement to resolve his or...
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June 24, 2022
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Category: Compensation

New York State Is Latest Jurisdiction To Mandate Pay Disclosure

The New York state legislature has passed and sent to Governor Kathy Hochul for her expected signature a bill that will require covered state employers to include salary and other information in their job postings. Once signed into law, Senate Bill 9427 is scheduled to go into effect in 270 days, likely sometime early next year. The New York bill...
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