Notices for Employees Related to Health Plans
Employers are required to provide certain notices to employees, whether they provide health insurance to their employees or not; here is a brief summary of the notices you are required to provide:How to Handle an Employee’s Request for Accommodation
Courtesy Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Introduction
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants and employees with a disability unless the employer can demonstrate that doing so creates an undue hardship to the employer or poses a direct threat to the safety of the employee or others in the workplace. An accommodation may include a change to the work environment or to the way in which a job is usually performed.
Your Post - July 1 To-Do List
Legislators and Regulators are constantly changing the landscape for California farm employers. Here are a few things you should remember to do in July:
EPA WPA Pesticide Revisions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is updating its Worker Protection Standard after more than 20 years.
Piece Rate Employees Must be Paid for All Time
In Gonzalez v. Downtown LA Motors, the court ruled that an employer may not conclude that an employee was paid at least minimum wage for all hours worked in a pay period if the employee's piece-rate earnings for that period divided by the number of hours in that period worked equals at least the California minimum wage of $8 an hour - at least where the employer directed the employee to also do non-piece-rate tasks.
Courts Invalidate NLRB Notice Post Rule
On Friday June 14, 2013 another court weighed in and for a second time concluded that the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "Board") posting rule is unenforceable. In Chamber of Commerce v. NLRB, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the NLRB exceeded its authority in adopting the posting rule. The court reasoned that the NLRB’s role is a reactive one, intended to address unfair labor practice charges, and that the NLRB exceeded this role when it acted in a proactive manner adopting a workplace posting rule. The most recent Fourth Circuit decision is here.