Compliance Alert: Updated content in the 2025 edition includes:

• Minimum wage increases for 2025, including the new health care worker minimum wage.
• Expansion of discrimination and retaliation protections.
• Reforms to the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).
• Workplace violence prevention requirements.
• Indoor heat illness regulations.
• Required poster and notice updates.
• Other “New for 2025” content highlighted throughout the book.

HR Quick Guide for California Employers takes you through the basics on hiring, leaves of absence, wage and hour requirements, and more. Simple charts and tables make finding answers to your questions quick and easy.

This guide is a great resource that puts concise employment law information at your fingertips:

• Reliable HR information for California employers
• Understandable terms
• Steps and HR processes
• More than 200 downloadable HR forms and checklists

Features

Although any size company can benefit from the information in this guide, HR Quick Guide for California Employers is ideal for management or anyone new to HR. Use it to:

• Better understand California and federal employment laws and what they require
• Quickly grasp key HR areas, such as hiring, benefits, compensation, workplace safety and termination
• Manage HR issues and develop solid HR practices
• Find what you need to know before responding to an HR issue
• Learn essential actions to prevent fines or legal actions resulting from noncompliance
• Download required and recommended HR forms and checklists
• Access definitions, laws, acronyms and a listing of agencies and resources
• Hire and terminate with confidence
• Pay fairly and within the law
• Keep discrimination and harassment out of the workplace