Last month, we blogged about the new legislation heading your way in 2017. One topic included at https://peoplescapehr.com/new-year-round-need-change-2017/ was restroom facilities. As we wrote there, AB 1732 requires all employers to designate single-user restrooms as “gender neutral facility”. This applies to facilities with one toilet and/or urinal and one sink, with a door that the user can lock from the inside. This legislation follows suit with others we have seen over the past several years as a result of transgender identity and preventative regulations against discrimination in this particular area. Those that follow us regularly will remember that we also [...]

In honor of President’s Day, we would like to share some updates with you about the impact of President Trump’s policies on HR professionals in the workplace. As always, a new president can have a huge impact on the workforce, but the checks and balances in place within the United States government does not allow for hasty implementation of many programs. The ban on immigration – Citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are free to enter the U.S. after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower federal court judge’s nationwide temporary restraining [...]

Our LA human resource consultants are frequently tasked with supporting company-wide management initiatives driven by market dynamics or more specific organizational changes for our clients. Now, to make things a bit more interesting, we have additional generalized factors impacting Los Angeles businesses, particularly those with 25 or more employees, and many small business owners are bracing for a sea of change this year. You don’t need special fortune-telling skills to understand the impact of higher minimum wages, increased mandatory employee benefits, an unemployment rate of 5%, inevitable future restrictions on H1B Visas and immigration policies, and commuting challenges that combine [...]