Posts tagged with ‘regulations’

  • New California Regulation: Limitation on Employer Consideration of Criminal History

    By Sutton Hague Law Corporation on May 12, 2017
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    The California Fair Employment and Housing Council approved new regulations that limit employers’ freedom to consider criminal history when screening applicants or making employment-related decisions. The new regulations go into effect on July 1, 2017. Generally When hiring, promoting, training, disciplining or terminating, employers are strictly prohibited from considering: (1) An arrest or detention that did not result in conviction; […]
  • New FEHA Regulations Effective April 1, 2016

    By Sutton Hague Law Corporation on April 8, 2016
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    The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (“DFEH”) has amended many of its anti-discrimination and anti-harassment regulations effective April 1, 2016. To begin, the regulations expand the definition of employer by including out-of-state employees in the five employee threshold that triggers application of the regulations. For example, a Nevada company with a small satellite office of three employees in […]