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April 3, 2024 at 9:36 AM. Getty Images. A new bill is aiming to give Californians more work-life balance by restricting when employers can contact them during off hours. So-called “right to ...
The bill seeks to amend Section 510 of the California Labor Code by redefining the workweek from 40 hours to 32, with eight-hour workdays remaining in place. Under the bill, employees who work in ...
Assembly Bill 2751, drafted by state Rep. Matt Haney (D–San Francisco), would expand on prevailing California rules restricting overtime work by adding the "right to disconnect" to the state's ...
Motor carriers were required to give drivers 8, rather than 9, consecutive hours off-duty each day. These rules allowed for 10 hours of driving and 8 hours of rest within a 24-hour day. In 1962, for reasons it never clearly explained, the ICC eliminated the 24-hour cycle rule, and reinstated the 15-hour on-duty limit.
As per the rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States of America, residents are allowed to work a maximum of 80 hours a week averaged over a 4-week period. Residents work 40–80 hours a week depending on specialty and rotation within the specialty, [citation needed] with residents occasionally ...
In the United States, smoker protection laws are state statutes that prevent employers from discriminating against employees for using tobacco products. Currently twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have such laws. Although laws vary from state to state, employers are generally prohibited from either refusing to hire or firing an ...
The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act ( Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.
March 29, 2024 at 10:38 AM. New EPA emissions rules would affect freight trucks, buses, cement mixers and other heavy-duty vehicles. Here trucks idle at the Port of Long Beach in 2021. (Luis Sinco ...