Wilson Turner Kosmo's April 2018 Legislative Report is now available detailing employment bills pending in Sacramento with potential application to California employers.  These include bills that would:

• Amend the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to impose individual liability upon employees who engage in post-complaint retaliation (SB 1038);
• Expand the scope of currently-mandated harassment training to additional employers, and for non-supervisory employees (SB 1300, SB 1343, and AB 3081);
• Impose new limits on settlement agreements regarding sexual harassment claims, including prohibiting confidentiality provisions (SB 820, SB 1300, and AB 3057);
• Require employers to provide time off work for victims of sexual harassment and immediate family members (AB 2366);
• Amend the FEHA to preclude discrimination against medicinal marijuana users (AB 2069);
• Enable employers to assist employees with student loan repayments (AB 2478);
• Update and potentially materially expand workplace lactation accommodation requirements (AB 1976 and SB 937);
• Increase California’s paid sick leave requirements from three to five days (AB 2841);
• Require larger employers to submit annual “pay data reports” to state agencies (SB 1284); and
• Many, many more.