September 12, 2019
by Jay Putnam, Newsletters
Background
California law has expanded the rights of current and former employees to inspect their personnel files. This may seem like a mundane matter, until employers realize that a request to inspect an employee’s personnel file is often the first indication employers receive that a lawsuit may be coming.
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Speak up, it’s your opportunity for input, because contractors have their cards on the ‘table’. Another contractor has gotten the ‘cart before the horse’ so to speak, while a license applicant will have to delay his travel plan until he’s told ‘when’ to get moving…
Q: Do you know if there is a data table of licensed contractor’s that is available for use for marketing purposes?
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
The requirement to provide harassment prevention training to both supervisory and nonsupervisory employees is now not required until calendar year 2020, as opposed to the previous SB 1343 requirement that all applicable harassment training be conducted this year. This new change in the law will allow employers more time to provide any required training to those employees not already trained – especially nonsupervisory employees who are now required to receive at least one hour of harassment training every two years.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (District) is seeking new members for its Business Advisory Council (BAC) for the 2019 to 2021 term and your organization is invited to nominate candidates to apply for membership.
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Yes, you can’t have it both ways. Or can you? A contractor is having some ‘separation’ anxiety with his RME, while another’s hopeful ambition to ‘raise the roof’ falls flat…