Laws to ban sexual-harassment gag orders, place restrictions on warehouse-worker quotas, and enact stringent enforcement for workplace safety violators will take effect next month in California, setting a new layer of workforce compliance for employers to follow.
With Covid-19 at the forefront of Californians’ minds, state lawmakers in 2021 passed relatively few labor bills, said Benjamin Ebbink, a partner with Fisher & Phillips LLP in Sacramento.
“Normally we have 20 or 25 really big, significant bills, and this year we don’t,” Ebbink said. “It’s pretty much a down year.”
Among the most noteworthy: One new law will bar ...
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