EMPLOYER NOTICES: 

• Effective April 30, 2012- The new NLRA posting requirements for most private employers has been postponed from November 14, 2011 until April 30, 2012.   Employee Rights NLRA Poster.

• EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT (Sept. 2011)
• Effective July 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011, the IRS approved business mileage reimbursement rate increased to 55.5 cents per mile.

• Effective January 1, 2011, there was no change to the computer software or licensed physician exemptions minimum hourly rates - the computer software exemption minimum hourly rate of pay = $37.94 (min. salary $79,050). 

• New Workers Compensation Forms:  Effective October 8, 2010, all employers must distribute a new "Your Rights to Workers' Compensation Benefits" pamphlet to all new employees hired on or after October 8, 2010.   Additionally, starting October 8^th, employers must begin using a revised DWC-1 Claim Form/Notice of Potential Eligibility.    

•  The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act:  Offers an exemption from payroll taxes for each worker hired in 2010.  Employers who hire unemployed workers this year (after Feb. 3, 2010 and before Jan. 1, 2011) may qualify for a 6.2-percent payroll tax incentive, in effect exempting them from their share of Social Security taxes on wages paid to these workers after March 18, 2010.  The hired employee must have been unemployed for at least 60 days for employers to qualify for the tax credit.  The new law requires that the employer get a statement from each eligible new hire certifying that he or she was unemployed during the 60 days before beginning work or, alternatively, worked fewer than a total of 40 hours for someone else during the 60-day period. The IRS Form W-11 is available here.  In addition, for each worker retained for at least a year, businesses may claim an additional general business tax credit, up to $1,000 per worker, when they file their 2011 income tax returns.  For more details on this payroll tax credit click here.

• GINA poster supplement- click here

• New FMLA Regulations and their Effects on California’s Family Rights Act (CFRA) Regulations

  On November 17, 2008, the federal Department of Labor issued revised regulations interpreting the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).  (New FMLA Regulations.)  It has created a Table comparing differences between the revised FMLA regulations and the Commission’s CFRA regulations.  Click here for Comparison Chart Between New FMLA Regulations and CFRA Regulations.

• Amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act and their Effects on the FEHA

  Effective January 1, 2009, Congress amended the original Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA,” 42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.) to revise the definition of what is considered a “disability.”  (The Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act “ADAAA,” Pub. Law 100-325.)  See the Commission’s Table comparing the ADA, the ADAAA and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act for determining what is a “disability.”  Click here for Comparison Between the ADA, the ADA Amendments Act & the FEHA.