2025 Legal Update
PRESENTER: Jonathan Light, Managing Partner, Light Gabler
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
11:30 - 1:30
Year-after-year California issues countless new employment laws – not to mention copious quantities of cases and administrative decisions. And then, there’s all the federal content. It’s enough to make any business person go numb from the ears down! But don’t turn a deaf ear this year! Staying up-to-date on the latest employment legislation for 2025, as well as the 2024 cases and administrative opinions is critical for every employers’ protection.
In this informative program, our speaker will provide insights into at least 100 new laws, regulations and cases, along with practice tips for employers and human resource professionals.
Topics on the horizon for the 2025 New Year include:
• 2025 new legislation
• 2024 cases and administrative opinions
• Critical arbitration updates and enforcement guidance
• Intersectional discrimination
• CROWN Act expansions
• Update leave of absence for victims of crimes
• Expanded sick leave use for farm workers and victims of crimes
• Mandatory attendance at meetings (hint, don’t talk politics or religion)
• PFL = no forced paid time
• PAGA reforms
• Freelance worker protections
• Indoor heat illness regulations
• Driver’s license and job ads?
• Travel time – security check-in/out time compensable?
• Still rounding, CA Supreme weigh in
• EEOC harassment and PWFA guidance
• Coverage of continued aggressive NLRB rulings
• Federal salary exemption updates
• Minimum wage increases (local and state)
• IRS mileage rates for 2025
• Handbook updates for 2025
• And much, much more!
With over thirty years of experience, Jonathan Fraser Light offers employment counsel and training programs to companies of all sizes to reduce liability and protect against lawsuits. He enjoys a stellar and long-standing reputation as a skilled trial attorney and serves more than 500 national, regional and local employers in the private and public sector on day-to-day and litigation-related employment matters. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and lives in Camarillo with his wife of more than 35 years.
• Regular: Roast Sirloin
• Vegetarian: Grilled Portabella
• Dessert: Pink Champagne Cake
Meeting Locaton:
Garden Room
Madonna Inn
100 Madona Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Register: Click Here
February Meeting
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
11;30am - 1:00pm
Regular: Italian Lasagna
Vegetarian: Veggie Lasagna
Dessert: Black Forest Cake
Meeting Locaton:
Garden Room
Madonna Inn
100 Madona Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Register: Click Here
March Meeting
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
11:30am - 1:pm
Regular: Boneless Chicken Breast with wild rice dressing
Vegetarian: Grilled Portabella
Dessert: Apple Pie
Meeting Locaton:
Garden Room
Madonna Inn
100 Madona Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Register: Click Here