December 17, 2018
With the New Year around the corner, it is important to prepare for new labor laws that will impact San Diego employees and employers. Among those includes a new law, signed in 2016, which raises the minimum wage incrementally, boosting it January 1st to $11 per hour for employers with 25 or fewer employees, and $12 per hour for businesses staffing more than 26 employees. There will also be a number of new sexual harassment laws including one that extends sexual harassment training requirements to employers with at least five employees: one hour for nonsupervisory staff, and two hours for supervisory staff, every two years. A new law for nursing mothers, called lactation accommodation, requires employers to provide a location other than a bathroom for women to express breast milk. Another new law requires public held corporations to place at least one female director on its board by December 31, 2019. Read more about new 2019 labor laws.