Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has quickly evolved from an emerging technology into a tool that many employers use every day. Whether it is screening job applicants, drafting performance evaluations, summarizing workplace investigations, or assisting with policy development, AI is becoming increasingly integrated into public-sector operations.
California policymakers have taken notice. Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom…
We are excited to continue our video series – Tips from the Table. In these videos, members of LCW’s Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining practice group will provide various tips that can be implemented at your bargaining tables. We hope that you will find these clips informative and helpful in your negotiations.
Some Employer-Employee Relations Resolutions are so old they were typed on a typewriter, copied on a mimeograph, photocopied for 30 years, scanned into a PDF, and then photocopied again for good measure. By the time we see them, the text is often at a 15-degree angle and appears to be bargaining over whether it wants…
Public agencies in California face ongoing challenges to keep their personnel rules current with evolving legal requirements. Summer offers an ideal opportunity to review and update these rules. Over the past few years, LCW attorneys have identified several key areas where updates are needed in almost every public agency’s personnel rules. Addressing these areas now…
Most employers know the value of an exit interview. When an employee resigns, agencies often ask why they are leaving and what could have been done differently. The problem, of course, is that by the time an exit interview takes place, the employee has already decided to move on.
What if agencies asked those questions…
We are excited to continue our video series – Tips from the Table. In these videos, members of LCW’s Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining practice group will provide various tips that can be implemented at your bargaining tables. We hope that you will find these clips informative and helpful in your negotiations.
California public agencies commonly offer a variety of retirement benefits to employees, including defined contribution plans such as 457(b) plans, 401(a) plans, and, in some cases, 401(k) plans or retiree health savings arrangements. While these plans provide valuable retirement security, they also create an often-overlooked administrative responsibility: ensuring that employees complete and maintain current beneficiary…
The modern workplace was not designed with every kind of brain in mind, yet an estimated 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent. This means one in five of your employees may be neurodivergent. Neurodivergence is a non-medical term used to describe individuals who interact with the world and whose brains function and process information…
Many California public agencies staff summer camps and other recreation activities with seasonal employees, teen workers, coaches, and temporary supervisors.
Below is a short staffing checklist to review before the first day of camp, or before recreation activities commence.
1. Identify Mandated Reporters
Under Penal Code section 11165.7, mandated reporters include an administrator of…
In the recently published opinion, Grant v. Chapman University, the California Court of Appeal considered whether Chapman University’s publications, course listings, and statements about campus life created an enforceable implied contract to provide in-person instruction amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Court held that Chapman University (“Chapman”) did not make a specific, enforceable promise to…
