Sierra Human Resources Association

05/01/2025

Leave laws are complex and carry a lot of considerations. When an employee comes to you with a leave request do you know which California leave laws may apply?

06/24/2024

What’s Hot in HR? Indoor Heat Illness Standard is Here

04/30/2024

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Earn Your California Employing Abilties at Work Certificate Register now There are 1.9 million individuals with disabilities of working age in the State of California. To help promote diversity, inclusion and provide untapped talent to California workplaces, SHRM Foundation has partnered with the Ca...

04/15/2024

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued its final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

12/15/2023

The IRS is raising the standard mileage rate by 1.5 cents per mile for 2024.

11/29/2023

In October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 476, which requires food facility employers to pay an employee for any cost associated with obtaining a food handler card.

10/06/2023

In the wake of numerous California cities passing local Paid Sick Leave (PSL) ordinances in recent years, the State of California has now taken matters into its own hands – and created yet more…

09/18/2023

California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) regulations will be updated as of October 1, 2023. The updated regulations govern how employers with five or more employees can use criminal history information when making employment decisions.

If you are required by law to conduct criminal background checks, or if you regularly use criminal history information in making employment decisions, we recommend that you review the changes in full on the state’s Civil Rights Department website:

09/13/2023

​The 32-hour workweek is on the bargaining table as the United Auto Workers (UAW) negotiate a new contract. The autoworkers are the latest to broach the issue of a four-day workweek, and it's an idea that is gaining traction around the world and the U.S.

08/30/2023

The Department of Labor has proposed an increase to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) salary-level threshold for white-collar exemptions.

08/23/2023

California announced a $16.00 hourly minimum wage for all employers effective Jan. 1, 2024. As a result of this inflation-related minimum wage increase, the minimum wage rate for all employers with California employees will increase from $15.50 to $16.

08/22/2023

Workers are spending fewer hours on the job on average after working at a record pace during the COVID-19 pandemic.