The COVID-19 pandemic changed the workplace as we once knew it. Extensive legislation was enacted placing greater responsibility on employers to deal with the impact of spreading illness in the workplace. Even with the pandemic receding, laws continued to be enacted or extended focused on employee leave and health and safety in the workplace in 2022.
Expansion of the California Family Rights Act, mandatory Paid Sick Leave for COVID-related illness, extended workplace safety protections, and Workers’ Compensation coverage for employees based on the rebuttable presumption they contracted COVID-19 in the workplace were just some of the laws enacted to expand and enhance employee benefits. These laws are set to take effect in the coming year.
Also front and center are bills that will expand pay data reporting and pay scale disclosure. Important court decisions also have been issued that are already having a significant impact on employee arbitration and meal and rest periods.
This article is not an exhaustive list of all the new laws and regulations to take effect in 2023, but it does summarize key new laws. Please reach out to any of Dykema’s Labor and Employment attorneys to discuss the impact of the new laws on your business and to assess the best approach for complying with these new developments.
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