After years of rapid change – the potentially final form of California’s COVID-19 regulation has been filed with the Secretary of State and goes into effect today.
On December 15, 2022, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board voted to transition the state’s COVID-19 regulation from a short-term, “emergency” regulation (also known as an “ETS”) to a non-emergency,
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After Three Weeks of Storms, What’s California’s Water Outlook?
By Brenda Bass
Following a barrage of storms at the end of December and beginning of January, California made a quick about-face from critically dry conditions to flooding conditions across the state. These conditions exemplify California’s boom and bust patterns in precipitation in a condensed period of time. It also highlights how important it is to be prepared…
California Air Resources Board Adopts Updated Scoping Plan
After conducting a series of workshops over the last year and a half, the California Air Resources Board approved an updated version of their scoping plan in December 2022. The plan itself is essentially a roadmap on how the fourth largest economy in the world will achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and reducing GHG’s by…
Cal/OSHA’s Holiday Gift – a 2-year Extension of COVID-19 Regulation
Sometimes, the holidays come with gifts that … aren’t necessarily what the recipient asked for. The Cal/OSHA Standards Board gave just such a gift to the employer community on Thursday, December 15th, when it voted 6-1 to continue California’s COVID-19 regulation until December of 2024. The silver lining on ongoing burden for California employers is…
Cal/OSHA Makes Big Changes to COVID-19 Regulation Ahead of December Vote
California employers may want to get out their measuring tape – because the size (in cubic feet) of a workspace just became an important element of COVID-19 compliance.
Last Thursday and Friday (October 13/14), the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) made some significant changes to…
COVID-19 Emergency Regulation to Expire (And Potentially Be Extended) Later This Year
As the legislative cycle reaches its peak frenzy and the fate of 2022’s crop of bills is decided, the regulatory world at Cal/OSHA is taking a major step forward on COVID-19.
The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has released the draft text to extend the state’s COVID-19 regulation for another two years – with some significant changes…
New Article Shows Record Number of PAGA Filings During COVID-19 Pandemic
While most business operations seemed to slow down during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows that one industry did not: plaintiff’s firms filing lawsuits. PAGA filings were sky-high in 2020 and 2021, with a record 6,502 PAGA notices filed in 2021.
A recent article by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. reviewed PAGA filings…
Regulatory Dithering
By Loren Kaye
The California Legislature passes hundreds of new laws every year, many of which require executive branch interpretation and implementation. According to legislative process maven Chris Micheli, the California Administrative Code comprises more than sixty thousand separate sections to give effect to legislative mandates.
In turn, the Administration is accountable to the Legislature for faithful execution…
Film Tax and Manufacturing Tax Credit Bills Continue On
CalChamber recently released its eighth semi-annual California Chamber of Commerce Poll and the results were clear- two-thirds of voters believe the country is headed down the wrong track, while a majority feel the same about California. While our state’s shortcomings grab all the attention, and deservedly so, there’s still areas where California is quietly getting…
Film Tax and Manufacturing Tax Credit Bills Continue On
CalChamber recently released its eighth semi-annual California Chamber of Commerce Poll and the results were clear- two-thirds of voters believe the country is headed down the wrong track, while a majority feel the same about California. While our state’s shortcomings grab all the attention, and deservedly so, there’s still areas where California is quietly getting…