Application & Hiring

Get ready to update your employment applications and make changes to your hiring practices and policies. There are a slew of new laws passed by the California legislature that will take effect on January 1st, 2018. I’ll address each of the new major legislative updates in the coming days. This first one focuses on California’s “ban-the-box” statute.

Federal law requires that every employer who hires an individual for employment in the United States must complete Form I-9, which is used to verify the identity and employment authorization of individuals hired to work in the United States. The United States Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of Form I-9 on July 17, 2017, which employers must begin using starting September 18, 2017.

The threat of losing valuable company trade secrets to a departing employee is real and not a matter of if, but when, it will happen.  Failure to take appropriate measures to thwart against trade secret theft could result in significant loss of profitability and erosion of an established employee and customer base, and it can happen quickly and easily.  It only takes a minute to copy or remove countless files containing confidential and proprietary company information to a thumb drive, or to email or upload files to the cloud.