Oct 24, 2022 | Business Insurance, Business Operations
IF YOUR employees are communicating with each other and clients via texting or instant messaging using their own phones, should you ever need access to those communications you could be in a for a rude surprise. While the immediacy of texting and instant messaging is...
Oct 17, 2022 | Business Insurance, Business Operations
IF YOU OWN your business and have employees, you are likely exempt from having to cover yourself under your workers’ compensation policy in California. But what if you have multiple owners? There are rules promulgated by state law that set out the parameters for when...
Oct 17, 2022 | Business Insurance, Employment Legislation
GOVERNOR GAVIN Newsom has signed into law legislation that would bar employers from discriminating against employees and job applicants who use cannabis on their time off. The law amends the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against...
Sep 30, 2022 | Business Insurance, Workers’ Compensation
ALTHOUGH WE are in a low workers’ compensation rate environment, eventually the market will turn and rateswill start to rise. While you may not feel much urgency now if you have a few claims, once rates turn, those claims could become more magnified and start...
Sep 22, 2022 | Business Insurance, Workplace Safety
THE Cal/OSHA Standards Board is set to vote on a permanent COVID-19 workplace safety standard on Sept. 15, that would take effect at the start of 2023. The permanent standard will replace the temporary emergency standard that took effect in 2020 after the pandemic...
