"2024 California Workplace Laws: What You Need to Know"
California has passed several new laws that will impact the workplace in 2024. These include an increase in the minimum wage for all workers, a specific minimum wage increase for healthcare and fast food workers, employers covering the cost of food handling cards, an increase in paid sick days, expanded family leave for reproductive loss, a ban on noncompete agreements, protection for recreational cannabis users, restrictions on asking about cannabis use during the hiring process, and the implementation of workplace violence prevention plans.