California employers should take steps to ensure compliance with several new employment laws that take effect January 1, 2016. This article covers important provisions in some of those laws. 1. Wage and Hour Laws • The Fair Pay Act (Senate Bill 358) SB 356, known as the Fair Pay Act, significantly changes the California Equal Pay Act related to gender wage inequality. The bill prohibits an employer from paying any of its employees at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex for substantially similar work, except where the employer demonstrates the pay differential is […]
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Dec16
Checklist for Employers: California’s New Employment Laws 2015
Posted by GibbsGiden Under California Law