Leave Protections Expanded for Employee Victims of Violence

Posted on: November 5th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that provides a right to paid time off and other protections for employees who are victims of violence, including threats, assaults, stalking and domestic abuse. AB 2499 makes significant changes to California’s “jury, court and victim time off” law by expanding instances when a victim of […]

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Construction Fall-Protection Trigger to be Reduced to 6 Feet

Posted on: October 29th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has relented to threats from Federal OSHA and voted to align its residential construction and roofing fall-protection trigger with its federal counterpart at 6 feet. California has been the only state that runs its own OSHA and not comply with the federal mandate that requires laborers working at heights of more […]

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Businesses Suffer as Employee Theft Grows

Posted on: October 22nd, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenues to occupational fraud, according to a survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). The association estimates that U.S. businesses lose some $50 billion a year to employee theft, and that 75% of employees have stolen at least once from their employer […]

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How to Streamline Your Insurance Policy Audit

Posted on: October 15th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Are you due for a workers’ compensation premium audit? Audits are how insurance rates are determined, and it’s possible that an audit will uncover information that can actually save you money — or not if you’ve hired additional staff and haven’t notified your insurer. In any case, it pays to be prepared by taking on […]

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Businesses Often Have No Recourse After Costly Software Outages

Posted on: October 8th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Lately there’s been a series of massive cyberattacks on software that organizations use to run their businesses, causing major disruptions to companies — and sometimes hamstringing their ability to operate. The most recent example is the Crowdstrike cyber-security software outage that affected some 8.5 million businesses,  most notably airlines, which had to cancel thousands of […]

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Drivers, Fleet Managers Must Report All Claims

Posted on: October 1st, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

A common problem in the transportation industry is fleet managers failing to report accidents that their drivers are involved in, or the drivers themselves failing to report them in the first place. The risk is that if you ignore this problem, it’s not going away and will instead likely come back to haunt you, particularly […]

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EEOC, OSHA Retaliation Claims Surge

Posted on: September 23rd, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Over the past several years, employers have seen a significant uptick in retaliation and whistleblower claims filed by employees and investigated by federal agencies. Often these claims are part of another complaint, either concerning workplace discrimination or harassment issues and filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or concerning workplace safety issues, which are filed […]

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Cal/OSHA Proposed Workplace Violence Prevention Rules Muddy the Waters

Posted on: September 17th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Cal/OSHA has proposed new regulations that would incorporate California’s new workplace violence prevention law — which took effect July 1 — into Title 8, the set of regulations that covers workplace safety in the Golden State. However, the proposed rules add a number of new requirements that some safety observers say would be unworkable in […]

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EEOC Issues Construction Industry Harassment Prevention Guidance

Posted on: September 10th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued new guidance for preventing harassment on construction industry worksites. The guidance, while not binding, can be used as a template for construction firms to implement anti-harassment policies. According to the EEOC, the industry has an especially high incidence of harassment complaints, and “some of the most egregious incidents […]

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More Businesses Sued Over Disabled Website Access

Posted on: August 27th, 2024 by Leaders' Choice Staff No Comments

Businesses with a web presence, particularly those that are consumer-facing, are increasingly being sued over website accessibility issues that prevent disabled individuals from using a website. While the number of such cases has been growing, 2,281 website accessibility lawsuits were filed in 2023, down from 2,387 the prior year and 2,352 in 2021, according to […]

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