California’s Workplace – Know Your Rights Act (SB 294), requires employers to provide employees with annual written notice of key workplace rights. The law seeks to “equip California workers with knowledge of their rights that they can also use to protect their families, neighbors, and communities.”

Effective February 1, 2026, all California employers must provide a standalone, written notice to all current employees, in a manner the employer normally uses to communicate job or employment information, such as personal service, email, or text message, and to all new hires at the time of hire. This notice must be provided annually and must include information about, among other things, workers’ compensation rights, including disability pay and medical care, immigration-related protections, the right to unionize or engage in protected concerted activity, and certain constitutional rights.

The law also requires annual notice of existing workplace protections related to immigration status, including:

• The right to advance notice of inspection by immigration authorities. An employer receiving notice of an inspection of I-9 forms or other records by immigration authorities must post a notice informing workers and their union representatives, if applicable. The I-9 inspection notice posting requirement was established by earlier California law.
• Protection from retaliatory immigration-related practices. California employers are prohibited from threatening or taking...

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