California's 2026 employment bills: what was signed on September 30 and what to do before January 1
The bills Governor Newsom signed through September 30, 2026, their effective dates, and the handbook and HR changes each one requires.
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Florida E-Verify: the 25-employee rule, the 3-day clock, and who's responsible in a PEO relationship
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California Labor Code 2802 and remote work: phones, internet and home-office costs in your handbook
What an automated handbook audit can and cannot tell you
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California's 2026 employment bills: what was signed on September 30 and what to do before January 1
The bills Governor Newsom signed through September 30, 2026, their effective dates, and the handbook and HR changes each one requires.
Compliance
Florida E-Verify: the 25-employee rule, the 3-day clock, and who's responsible in a PEO relationship
What Florida Statutes section 448.095 requires of private employers, verification timing, E-Verify at 25 employees, retention, and the employee-leasing allocation rule.
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Florida's minimum wage reached $15.00 on September 30. Here's what to update
The constitutional schedule behind Florida's $15.00 minimum wage, the tipped-wage formula, the poster duty, and what changes in 2027.
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California Labor Code 2802 and remote work: phones, internet and home-office costs in your handbook
Section 2802 requires employers to indemnify 'all necessary expenditures' an employee incurs discharging their duties, with interest, and the employee's attorney's fees. What that means for personal phones, home internet, and the reimbursement policy your handbook needs.
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What an automated handbook audit can and cannot tell you
An honest account of automated handbook auditing from the people who built one: what machine review reliably catches, where it's genuinely better than human review, and the four things it cannot do, including the one everyone asks about.
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Why no Florida city can require paid sick leave, and what section 218.077 actually preempts
Florida preempts local minimum wages, benefit mandates, scheduling rules and heat requirements. Here's the statutory map, including the carve-outs.
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Heat illness prevention in California: outdoor and indoor rules and what the handbook should say
California has two heat standards, 8 CCR 3395 outdoors and 3396 for indoor workplaces at 82°F. The trigger temperatures, water and shade duties, high-heat procedures, written-plan and training requirements, quoted from the regulations.
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Five California handbook clauses worth checking against the statute
Credit-card tip deductions, meal-period waivers, organ-donor leave, I-9 inspection notices, and the forgotten termination notice in Labor Code 2808, five places where common handbook language and the actual statute diverge, with the code text quoted.
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California pay data reports: what the labor-contractor rules mean for PEOs
Government Code 12999 requires 100-employee companies to file pay data, and a separate report for workers supplied through labor contractors. What the statute actually says, the May deadline, the penalties, and the reported expansion of demographic categories.
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Texas employee handbooks: what state law actually requires, and what it leaves to you
Texas sets hard rules on final pay, paydays and posters, preempts every city ordinance, and leaves most of the handbook to the employer. The statutory map.
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PAGA after the 2024 reform: what 'reasonable steps' means for your handbook and training records
Labor Code 2699 now caps PAGA penalties at 15% or 30% for employers who took 'all reasonable steps', and the statute lists what those steps are. Payroll audits, lawful written policies, and supervisor training, quoted from the current text.
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California employer changes that took effect January 1, 2026
The verified January 1, 2026 changes for California employers: the $16.90 minimum wage, the 1.3% SDI rate with no wage cap, and the new training-records requirement in personnel files.
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