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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
June 17, 2025
"Public agency employers in California are facing increasing pressure to offer competitive, flexible, and legally compliant employee benefits. But there is one foundational document many agencies still overlook or perhaps do not fully understand -- the Section 125 cafeteria plan. Without it, certain popular and tax-advantaged benefits cannot be offered, and agencies may inadvertently run afoul of federal tax law."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Apr. 2, 2025
"Whether an individual is an 'employee' or an 'independent contractor' determines whether the individual must be enrolled in CalPERS under certain circumstances and whether a CalPERS retiree can return to work with a CalPERS agency without being subject to post-retirement work restrictions. The difficulty for CalPERS employers is that there is no single, absolute factor that distinguishes an 'employee' from an 'independent contractor.' "
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Oct. 2, 2024
"The Family School Partnership Act provides employees the option of taking leave to participate in their children's education.... [E]ligible employees have the right to take up to five days of bereavement leave upon the death of a covered family member.... [An] employee who is a victim of certain forms of crime or abuse is entitled to take time off from work under certain circumstances.... [E]mployees are entitled to time off for jury duty 'in any court of the United States' which includes service on a grand jury and trial jury."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Aug. 7, 2024
"In California, temporary military leave gives certain rights to employees of public agencies who take time away from work to serve in the reserves, the National Guard, or the Naval Militia. While this leave may be less common than sick leave, vacation, or maternity and paternity leave, it's important to know how to handle requests from employees who serve."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Nov. 2, 2023
"The law requires confidentiality.... [E]mployers may not interfere with an employee's right to take Reproductive Loss Leave, or retaliate against employees for requesting or taking this leave. Employees should create written policies providing Reproductive Loss Leave to employees."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Oct. 24, 2023
"[E]mployers will now be required to provide employees a minimum of five (5) days (or 40 hours) of paid sick leave by the employees' 200th calendar day of employment.... [T]he new law extends the procedural protections that were previously only available to employees who were not covered by an MOU or CBA to those that are covered by such a contractual agreement."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Mar. 3, 2023
"Over the last two years, the state of California has signed two bills into law, Senate Bill (SB) 278 (CalPERS) and Assembly Bill (AB) 1667 (CalSTRS), which impact how CalPERS and CalSTRS will collect on overpayments made to retirees as a result of compensation reporting errors. While both Bills address overpayments of pension benefits, AB 1667 goes further, and includes additional transparency measures in an effort to promote collaboration between CalSTRS and public education agencies and ensure proper reporting before issues (and large invoices!) arise."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
May 18, 2022
"The California Public Employees' Retirement Law and Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 do outline exceptions to the general rule. It is through these exceptions that agencies have been able to hire retired annuitants. The two common exceptions are found in Government Code sections 21221(h) and 21224. However, when an agency is utilizing either one of these exceptions, it must be aware of the strict and complicated requirements[.]"
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Feb. 10, 2022
"Previously, SB 95 authorized employers to draw down employees' SPSL balances when the employee was excluded from the workplace due to a COVID-19 case or work-related close contact exposure. Now, SB 114 expressly prohibits employers from requiring that employees use SPSL for this purpose ... This statutory change leaves employers in the potentially awkward and administratively difficult position of using other paid leaves accrued by the employee in order to provide for their continued compensation while they are excluded from the workplace."
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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Oct. 3, 2021
"Senate Bill (SB) 278 ... adds Government Code section 20164.5 and will go into effect on January 1, 2022. [The new law creates] new and in some cases retroactive financial exposure for CalPERS agencies already struggling to fund their pension obligations.... SB 278 would shift almost all of the consequences for reporting later disallowed compensation to the employer."
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