California has published a template notice that employers can use to comply with the state’s new Workplace Know Your Rights annual notice requirement.
The notice summarizes numerous workplace rights, including immigration-related protections, labor organizing rights, workers’ compensation, and rights related to designating an emergency contact to be notified if the employee is arrested.
Employers must distribute the notice to current employees by February 1 and to new employees hired after that date. Employers should provide the notice in a manner it normally uses to communicate employment-related information, such as email or text message.
Employers also must give employees an opportunity to name an emergency contact by March 30 and allow the employee to indicate whether the employer should notify the emergency contact if the employee is arrested or detained during work hours.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, can read more here.