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Nonprofit Corporation 2014 Law – SB594

SB594 – A New Law For California Nonprofit Corporations A 2014 California law prohibits nonprofit organizations from using monies and other property received from local agencies for campaign activities. SB 594, signed into law by Gov. Brown in 2013, and ...

San Diego Minimum Wage Increase

Los Angeles Times Article, August 19, 2014. Reporter: Tony Perry The San Diego City Council voted Monday to override the mayor’s veto of a minimum wage increase — setting the stage for another high-profile political fight between the Democrat-controlled council ...

Federal Contractors – New Executive Orders Regarding Retaliation

Here is an interesting article from our friends at Thomson Reuters regarding two new Executive Orders recently signed by President Obama: The first is Executive Order No. 13665 (79 Fed. Reg. 20,749, Apr. 11, 2014), which prohibits retaliation by covered federal ...

Labor and Employment Law – AB 1522 – Mandatory Sick Leave

Mandatory Sick Leave This week, the California Assembly Labor and Employment Committee approved AB 1522, a bill sponsored by Lorena Gonzales; D-San Diego, that would require all California employers, except those with collective bargaining agreements, to provide their employees who ...

Employment Law:Workplace Gambling

Employment Law – Workplace Gamling Although employers do not think about employees when we think about basketball, the annual frenzy of “March Madness” (the NCAA men’s basketball tournament) has changed that perspective. The outplacement firm that reports the basketball tournament’s ...

Setting Expectations for Your Small Business Employees in California

California Employment Law Blog Series #3 In our last blog in the California Employment Law blog series, we touched on the differences between employees, independent contractors and interns. As we discussed, each business relationship has benefits and drawbacks, as a ...

Employment Law – Workplace Romance and Privacy

Employment Law In a recent survey taken by Vault.com’s, (“2014 Office Romance Survey”), 56 percent of survey participants said they engaged in a workplace romance. The survey also evidenced that both men and women equally participated in a workplace romance. ...

San Diego Business Law – Corporate Forms

Welcome back to our San Diego Business Law blog series! In our past posts in this series we have addressed how liability considerations affect the selection of the appropriate business entity as well as the formal requirements for forming a ...

The Types of Business Entities Available in California

Building a business is both an exciting and extremely stressful time and selecting the appropriate legal form for your business can be a difficult choice. In California you have five different types of business entities to choose from and forming ...

Extension of an Employee’s Probationary Period

An employer’s extension of a recently-retained employee is not an action employers summarily or frequently take. Oftentimes the employer is afraid to modify its probationary period policy for fear of repercussions if it/he/she does so. Other times, the employer simply ...

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