A Message from Justin Erbacci, CEO of Los Angeles World Airports At a recent Board of Airport Commissioners meeting, the BOAC approved the award of a three-year Pre-Development Agreement (PDA) to LAX Community Partners (LACP). The PDA effort will advance the LAX Cargo Modernization plan through an environmental process and create a Phase 1…
DetailsTravel Reaches Post-Pandemic High, Los Angeles Airport Police Place At The Podium, Airport Commissioners Attend GLAAACC Awards
So proud to be an Airport Commissioner and a humble attendee with colleagues from LAWA at the extraordinary GLAAACC Gala honoring all the great work they have done and continue to do in LA. – Nick Roxborough From Justin Erbacci, CEO of Los Angeles World Airports: On Friday of last week, we reached a…
DetailsCALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT (CPRA) BECAME EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 1, 2023. AMENDS THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA) AND THEREFORE DOES NOT CREATE A SEPARATE NEW LAW[1].
What’s new? The new law covers legal entities of a certain size (see below) that do business in California and collect personal information of consumers. A consumer is defined as a California resident and therefore includes employees. · Businesses must provide a “notice at collection”. At the time of collecting the personal…
DetailsCalifornia Renews COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave
California passed another round of COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave. The new sick leave requirements, which are very similar to the benefits that expired in September 2021, go into effect on February 19th and apply retroactively to January 1, 2022. The benefits will continue to be available to employees up to September 30, 2022. The…
DetailsBREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Proposed OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Rule
Many employers, with 100 or more employees, were preparing to implement a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination or testing policy consistent with the Biden administration’s proposed rule. The proposed regulation was to be enforced by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”). However, employers received relief from the administrative burden of enforcing the rule. On January 13,…
DetailsNicholas P. Roxborough – Elected Chairman of the COIN Advisory Board
First, we want to wish everyone a very happy, and above all, healthy New Year for 2022! RPNA is also pleased to let all of its friends, colleagues, and clients know that Nicholas Roxborough was recently elected to be the 2022 Chair of the COIN Advisory Board. As you may already know, the COIN Advisory…
DetailsNew Quota Requirements for Distribution Centers
On September 22, 2021, Governor Newsom signed AB 701 into law. Aimed at the use of quotas in distribution centers, AB 701 will go into effect on January 1, 2022. The new law, which was originally drafted to curtail the practices of Amazon, may potentially apply to many employers across a range of industries involved with…
DetailsThe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Employers Cannot Require Arbitration Agreements as a Condition of Employment
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court who previously ruled that AB 51 was an unlawful restriction on arbitration agreements. The 9th Circuit’s ruling means that – at least for now – AB 51 remains the law in California. Last year, California Assembly Bill 51 was enacted, adding a section to…
DetailsMisclassification of Employees Becoming a Growing Federal Concern
It looks as if the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) will be getting approximately $7.5 billion “to boost worker protection efforts”. However, worker protection efforts will now include looking into misclassification by employers as either employees and/or independent contractors. So, in other words, the DOL will no longer limit its scope to making sure workers…
DetailsEmployers Can Expect to Implement Mandatory Vaccination Policies
Since the rise of the Delta variant of COVID-19, there has been a trend on the federal, state, and local levels to encourage and mandate vaccinations. As such, employers should anticipate having to implement their own vaccine mandate in the very near future. California has already begun implementing vaccine mandates on large sectors of health…
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