Workplace Rules

New and Updated

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  Employee Handbooks

  Time Off to Vote Handbook Statement: Minnesota

  Updated guidance to address time off to vote during the early voting period.

• Date:

  March 12, 2024

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  Commentary and Insights

  Feeding Your AI With Employee Data? Here's Food for Thought

  Employers should consider the potential ramifications, privacy and otherwise, of training AI models with employee information.

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  Employee Handbooks

  Paid Sick Leave Handbook Statement [56+ Employees; Lump Sum Method]: Emeryville, California

  Emeryville employers with 56 or more employees should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of sick leave using the lump sum method, and to show their compliance with Emeryville's Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. This policy also covers the California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act. It is intended to address compliance with both state and local law.

• Type:

  Employee Handbooks

  Paid Sick Leave Handbook Statement [56+ Employees; Accrual Method]: Emeryville, California

  Emeryville employers with 56 or more employees should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of sick leave using the accrual method, and to show their compliance with Emeryville's Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. This policy also covers the California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act. It is intended to address compliance with both state and local law.

• Type:

  Employee Handbooks

  Paid Sick Leave Handbook Statement [1-55 Employees; Lump Sum Method]: Emeryville, California

  Emeryville employers with 55 or fewer employees should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of sick leave using the lump sum method, and to show their compliance with Emeryville's Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. This policy also covers the California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act. It is intended to address compliance with both state and local law.

• Type:

  Employee Handbooks

  Paid Sick Leave Handbook Statement [1-55 Employees; Accrual Method]: Emeryville, California

  Emeryville employers with 55 or fewer employees should consider including this statement in their handbook to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of sick leave using the accrual method, and to show their compliance with Emeryville's Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. This policy also covers the California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act. It is intended to address compliance with both state and local law.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Privacy: New York

  Updated to reflect the New York privacy law prohibiting employers from requesting access information for employee and applicant social media accounts, effective March 12, 2024.

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  Policies and Procedures

  Safe Workplace Policy

  Enhanced to improve the comprehensiveness, organization and scope of coverage.

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  50-State Charts

  Social Media Password Privacy Protection Laws by State

  Updated to reflect the New York law prohibiting employers from requesting access information for employee and applicant social media accounts, effective March 12, 2024.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Utah

  Updated to reflect retaliation protections in regards to prohibited nondisclosure and non-disparagement agreements, effective retroactively to January 1, 2023.