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Is my company required to post the Form 300 beginning February 1?

If your company had 10 or fewer employees at all times during the last calendar year, your company does not need to keep Cal/OSHA injury and illness records.

This exemption also applies if your company’s Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code is included in Table 1 of Article 2 of the regulations adopted by California’s Division of Labor Statistics and Research and enforced by Cal/OSHA.

From Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate, Golden State Builders Exchanges

Building Standards Commission Passes Green Building Code

The struggling Bay Area economy received a big boost thanks to the BART Board, whose historic vote on December 10, 2009, means BART customers will finally have a swift, world-class train-to-plane connection between the Coliseum BART Station and the Oakland Airport.

When you think about workplace safety, you probably focus on the responsibilities that employees have to work safely. But don’t forget, they have rights, too.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act gives your employees 14 specific workplace rights. Workers have the right to:

from the CEA Weekly Update, California Employers Association

On December 21, 2009 the President signed the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (“Defense Act”) extending the COBRA subsidy.

Contributed by Eddie Bernacchi, Politico Group

SACRAMENTO – Year after year construction contractors have watched counties perform an enormous amount of “new” road construction with maintenance crews, while circumventing competitive bidding laws by using what is commonly called the “Road Commissioner” authority. This outdated statute allows counties to self perform road construction projects, ignoring accounting procedures and contracting out requirements.

In 1992, the State of California Department of Water Resources (DWR) adopted a water-efficient landscape ordinance, which was established as a voluntary model for application by local municipal and special-district water agencies (Assembly Bill AB 235). The City of Redding opted not to adopt such an ordinance and made findings, based on climatic and topographical conditions and water availability, that a water-efficient landscape ordinance was unnecessary.