On Nov. 19, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted on and approved an emergency COVID-19 regulation governing employers and workplaces.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/9jjYbAXDng0/california-passes-emergency-workplace-covid-19-regulation.aspx

California employers may not realize that even if nonexempt employees are paid entirely through commissions, they may be entitled to overtime pay if they work beyond a certain number of hours.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/Epv-oY3XU3o/commission-based-financial-advisors-entitled-to-overtime-pay.aspx

Voters in the city approved a tax on businesses that pay their chief executive officer or “highest-paid managerial employee” well above the median salary for the rest of their employees.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/L-B3aGZs0E4/san-francisco-passes-tax-on-highly-paid-executives.aspx

California voters passed Proposition 22, which will allow gig-economy companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to classify app-based drivers as independent contractors despite a strict new law that a court recently said makes such drivers employees.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/fZe0W8wdgLQ/california-voters-approve-prop-22.aspx

An employee’s inability to work under a particular supervisor because of anxiety and stress related to the supervisor’s standard oversight of the employee’s job performance did not constitute a disability under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/shrm/california/~3/KgxW2sGquVU/supervisor-related-stress-was-not-a-covered-disability.aspx