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Did you hear that right—is California really going to be raising its fast food minimum wage to $22 an hour?

The notion of “quiet quitting” is absurd.

No more treating employees’ mental health as just a catchphrase—it’s time to show you care about the people working to support your organization.

One of the most important concepts for employers to understand is that many unsuccessful employee relationships fail long before they ever begin. It is tempting to blame the employee for any number of reasons, like bad behavior or attitude. But an employee termination that ends on bad terms is almost always the result of a poor hiring process. Are you avoiding bad hires? How can you be sure?

Losing a valued employee is one of the hardest challenges an employer can face. Not only have you lost that employee’s services, but the relationship you have built over their duration at your organization is now going away, too. Unfortunately, this is the reality of the workforce today: people change jobs. And, even more unfortunately, too many employers fail to plan for it.

It’s mid-January, and you realize it’s almost time to start getting on top of your tax filing. You’re anticipating a nice return this year, you’ve got a cold beverage, and you’re ready to file. There’s just one problem: Your employer hasn’t sent you your 2021 paperwork yet! So, exactly when will you get your W-2s?

With all the changes to labor law over the past couple of years, one that has flown under the radar is the California mandate that requires employers to offer workplace retirement savings to their employees.

This summer has been an especially hot one and, as always, Cal-OSHA is serious about employers taking an active role in preventing heat illness.

Unlike many of the new COVID-related laws in California that add to or modify the existing labor code, Senate Bill (SB) 93  is a new creation surrounding COVID-related layoffs. So what does it say?

Have you ever “just” had a cold, and decided it wasn’t bad enough to keep you from working? Have you ever “toughed it out” and showed up to the office, even though you weren’t feeling 100 percent?