January 19, 2024
Key Compliance Issues for 2024
If you're compliant with California employment laws, you are probably in compliance pretty much anywhere else in the US. And if you want to know what employment law issues other states will be considering this year, look at what laws California recently passed.
California has some of the most employee friendly laws in the United States. It turns out treating employees fairly, paying them more, and making sure that people are working in safe and discrimination free environments is good for business.
Retention of employees increases the bottom line. Finding and replacing employees is expensive. First, there's the recruiting costs, loss of productivity, and shortfall in services. Then there's the burden placed on existing employees who end up doing someone else's job in addition to their own. This leads to burnout and turnover, not to mention overtime. It adds up fast.
Employees are more than a cost center; they're the heart of your business.
Here are some of the hot employment law topics coming to a state near you.
As the New Year begins, many of us are reviewing what we have done in the past and resolving to make certain changes for 2024. As a California employer, the process should be similar to ensure continued compliance with California’s ever-evolving wage and hour laws and the best practices for the New Year. But, unlike those gym memberships that may start gathering dust in mid-February, the below list of 5 wage and hour tips need to be resolutions that actually stick for California employers to ensure compliance in 2024:
Like any change in company policy, proper and consistent application of those new policies in practice is just as important. Updated training in 2024 may prove beneficial to ensure California Employers are in compliance both on paper and in practice.
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