Say the word “coach” and virtually everyone will form a mental picture. It may conjure up an image of little league, your days as a high school athlete, the debate team or even the trainer you hired to help you get into shape. Most of us have been coached at…
“We’re not a big company but we want to make a big contribution to our community” says Naomi Neilson Howard, CEO of Native Trails, Inc. at the kickoff meeting of the company’s new Community Trails program that pays employees who contribute time to qualified San Luis Obispo county charitable programs.…
A new law, AB 650, which many employers are just finding out about, requires employers to send language out to all employees receiving W2’s about their eligibility to file for Earned Income Tax Credit. The law is effective 1/1/08, and the notice must be sent out within one week of…
In a historic decision published today by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, class status was granted to 1.5 million current and former female employees of Wal-Mart. In Dukes v Wal-Mart, Patricia Dukes and other similarly situated women are suing Wal-Mart for gender discrimination. While the merits of the case…
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California yesterday made its case to the Department of Insurance for a 5.2 percent pure premium rate increase. The Bureau’s revised filing is one percentage point more than its original submission in September, an increase necessitated by Governor Schwarzenegger’s endorsement of AB 338.…
