California Workplace & Employment Law Blog

I’ve previously written about the importance of distributing employee handbooks, employment arbitration agreements and confidentiality agreements to your workforce. However, if you have employees who have little English literacy, it is important that you also provide translations of these key documents to your non-English speaking employees.

A performance improvement plan (PIP) is a good way to give struggling employees the opportunity to succeed while still holding them accountable for past performance. PIPs may be used to address failures to meet specific job performance-related issues or behavior-related concerns. PIPs may lead to several different outcomes, including improvement in overall performance, the recognition of a skills or training gap, or remedial actions such as demotion or termination.

AB 168 takes effect on January 1, 2018, prohibiting all California employers from relying on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer a position, or in deciding what salary to offer. The law defines “salary history” to include both compensation and benefits.