ii | 2025 Cal-Peculiarities ©2025 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com Authors’ Note At annual intervals throughout this century, we’ve cataloged how California law deviates from prevailing American labor and employment law. The result—this steadily growing volume—summarizes the legislative, judicial, and regulatory developments that have made California a uniquely challenging environment for private employers. (We do not address special challenges facing public employers or government contractors.) We highlight these California peculiarities to help corporate counsel and human resources professionals avoid legal pitfalls, without treating what is provided here as the final word (a point emphasized in the disclaimer that follows). This 2025 edition contains contributions from many Seyfarth lawyers—all members or friends of our California Workplace Solutions Group: Michael Afar, Mahsa Aliaskari, Heriberto Alvarez, Ashley Arnett, Brian Ashe, John Ayers-Mann, Nicole Baarts, Michele Beilke, Todd Bernhardt, Candace Bertoldi, Holger Besch, Bailey Bifoss, Jonathan Brophy, Bob Buch, Debbie Caplan, Nancy Chawla, Peter Choi, Andrew Cohen, Kelly Cohen, Mel Cole, Chris Crosman, Justin Curley, Catherine Dacre, Pamela Devata, Giselle Vinas Dhallin, Brad Doucette, Michelle DuCharme, Phillip Ebsworth, Shiva Emrani, Angelina Evans, Katie Farr, Cathy Feldman, Sage Fishelman, Lindsay Fitch, Barri Friedland, Kerry Friedrichs, Reiko Furuta, Nick Geannacopulos, Gina Gi, Brian Gillis, Julia Gordon, Ari Hersher, Laura Heyne, Eric Hill, Cristen Hintze, Timothy Hix, Charlotte Hodde, Heather Horn, Dana Howells, Francesca Hunter, Justin Jackson, David Jacobson, Hanna Jolkovsky, David Kim, Seong Kim, Kelly Koelker, Jessica Koenig, Yana Komsitsky, Michael Kopp, Natalie Kreeger, Kristina Launey, Paul Leaf, Elizabeth Levy, Leo Li, Sierra Chin Liu, Eric Lloyd, Brian Long, Aaron Lubeley, Elizabeth MacGregor, Laura Maechtlen, Scott Mallery, Mary Manesis, Jonathan Martin, Mandana Massoumi, Eric May, Amanda Mazin, Kathleen McConnell, Ryan McCoy, Andrew McNaught, Jon Meer, Chelsea Hoffman, Jesse Miller, Kamran Mirrafati, Richard Mojica, Ilana Morady, , Mackenzie Mullin, Emily Nahan, Yoon-Woo Nam, Jeffrey Nordlander, Jennifer Nunez, Lori O’Hara, Scott Page, Andrew Paley, Romtin Parvaresh, Beth Pelliconi, Sofya Perelshteyn, Dana Peterson, Sean Piers, Niles Pierson, Jamie Pollaci, Jill Porcaro, Tom Posey, Clara Rademacher, Janine Raduechel, Miguel Ramirez, Juan Rehl-Garcia, Jamie Rich, Josh Rodine, Christian Rowley, Timothy Rusche, Galen Sallomi, Jeanine Scalero, Lauren Schwartz, Laura Shelby, Kimberly Shen, Michael Sigall, Shardé Skahan, Kathleen Cahill-Slaught, James Sobolov, Emily Stamler, Ashley Stein, Eric Steinert, Sean Strauss, Justin Stucki, Eric Suits, Diana Tabacopoulos, Ryan Tikker, Tiffany Tran, Parnian Vafaeenia, Pamela Vartabedian, Andrea Vizzo, Ryan Tzeng, Pam Vartabedian, Nick Waddles, Ping Wang, Elisabeth Watson, Geoffrey Westbrook, Daniel Whang, Jeff Wortman, Steven Wong, Lilah Wylde, and Ann Marie Zaletel. We especially note the formidable contributions of Dana Howells, Elizabeth Levy, and Catherine Feldman, which included imposing some order on the chaos that is California’s bewildering welter of local sick pay laws. To keep up with the latest peculiarities of California employment law, please subscribe to Seyfarth’s awardwinning California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog: www.calpeculiarities.com/subscribe. Important Disclaimer We’ve been representative, not exhaustive, in cataloging California peculiarities. This book is general commentary, not legal advice. We disclaim liability as to anything done or omitted in reliance on this publication. Readers should refrain from acting on any discussion without obtaining specific advice applying current law to particular circumstances. (From A Declaration of Principles adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations.) Legal Notice Copyright © 2025. All rights reserved. Apart from fair use for private study or research permitted under copyright, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
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