Major changes in 2025 include: Increasing minimum wages and exempt salaries.  Wage and hour (PAGA) reform. Crime victims leave expansions. Indoor and outdoor heat illness standards. And many more! Speakers Arif Virji, Esq. Samantha Pungprakearti, Esq. Justin Hein, Esq. Sarah Hirschfeld-Sussman, Esq. Kristin Mattiske-Nicholles, Esq. CONFERENCE DETAILS Join us In-Person or Remotely by Zoom Date/Time: January 14, 2025 8:30 a.m. - Registration & Breakfast for In-Person Attendees 9:00 a.m. - Program Location: The Oxford Suites - Sonoma County 67 Golf Course Drive West Rohnert Park, CA 94928 In-Person attendees will be eligible to win a $400 gift card for dining at "the girl & the fig" restaurant in our Raffle Prize Drawing. Register Here www.comprlaw.com / Phone: 707-526-4200

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) approved a long-awaited indoor heat-illness standard on June 20, 2024. Before going live, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) will have 30 days to approve or deny the standard. Cal/OSHA has requested that it go into effective immediately after OAL approval, so it could very well go live in a month. The standard, Section 3396, requires employers with indoor workspaces of 87 degrees Fahrenheit and above to reduce the room temperature and offer workers other cool-down options. For indoor workers who wear poor ventilating protective clothing or work near a heat source, employers will instead have to provide cool-down options when the inside temperature reaches 82 degrees Fahrenheit. What California Employers Will Need to Prepare While California has had an outdoor heat illness standard since 2006, indoor workers have been left unprotected. Cal/OSHA has been developing this rule since 2017 but has se

As another scorching summer is upon us, Cal/OSHA is reminding employers with outdoor workers to take precautions to protect them against the heat. California employers need to be especially mindful as Cal/OSHA has workplace safety regulations governing the prevention of heat illness. The agency actively enforces its heat illness prevention standard. Employers should also comply for the safety and well-being of their workers, as heat illness can be deadly. CAL/OSHA IS URGING EMPLOYERS TO TAKE THE FOLLOWING STEPS TO PREVENT HEAT-RELATED ILLNESS AMONG THEIR EMPLOYEES WHO WORK OUTDOORS: Plan – Develop and implement an effective written heat illness prevention plan (HIPP) that is specific and customized to your operations. The plan must include the following heat illness prevention and response procedures: Training – Train all employees and supervisors on heat illness prevention. Nobody should be working outside in heat if they have not been trained in heat illness prevention an