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California’s Assembly Bill 1859 (AB 1859) aims to impose substantial new security obligations on consumer credit reporting agencies and companies that contract with such agencies. Under the new law, agencies and their contractors would be “required to expediently…
San Francisco and San Diego are moving to erase thousands of marijuana convictions en masse, which could be life-changing for some and helpful, especially, to minorities. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said he aims to “fix the harm that was done not…
A new California law imposes new and different obligations on California public and private employers for immigration worksite visits, activities and enforcement by federal government agencies. The California’s Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA), which became…
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf recently alerted the city that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents soon would be conducting workplace raids and now she is being investigated to see she broke any laws by issuing the warning. “It is Oakland’s legal right to be a…
California’s passage of the “Control, Regulate, and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act,” commonly referred to as Proposition 64, legalized the scale, possession, and use of recreational marijuana under limited circumstances. The drug still remains an…
A proposed bill in the state of California would protect medical marijuana users from employment discrimination. California employers currently can deny employment to users of marijuana, even if the use is to treat a medical condition. But the new bill, AB 2069, would…
Marijuana is now legal in nine states and Washington, D.C., which has resulted in the slow decline of pre-employment drug tests. Excellence Health Inc., a Las Vegas-based health care company with about 6,000 employees, no longer drug tests people coming to work for…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently reported that, between Jan. 29 and Jan. 31, 77 Northern California businesses were raised. Taking place in the San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento areas, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents…
Although cannabis usage is now legal in the State of California, employers may still prohibit its use in the workplace. Effective in January, California legalized the “recreational” use of cannabis for adults 21 years and older. Proposition 64, the Adult Use of…
California recently joined a growing number of cities and states to pass a law that bans salary history questions. Prompted by concerns about gender- and race-based wage discrimination, the law is designed to prevent employers from using past compensation as a basis…