SoCal MGMA: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! The 2024 Employment Law Update

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
The 2024 Employment Law Update

Thursday, February 22nd | 4:00pm-7:00pm

Madero 1899

111 N Harbor Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92832

Presented by: Jonathan Fraser Light, LightGabler LLP

AGENDA:

4:00pm - 5:00pm: 2024 Employment Law Update

5:00pm - 7:00pm: Networking 

Appetizers & Hosted Bar Included!
FREE to members! $25 Non-Members

Non-Member Special Offer: $25 event registration fee will be credited toward your SoCal MGMA membership, if you join by April 1^st.

ABOUT THE SESSION:

Each year the California courts and legislature are busy altering the landscape of California employment laws, and usually to the employer's detriment. To avoid costly litigation, employers must stay abreast of annual changes impacting the workplace. In this talk, hear about the new laws for the new year, as well as cases and opinions from the previous year that will alter your policies and practices going forward.

Key Discussion:

• 2024 new legislation
• 2023 case law and administrative opinions
• Critical arbitration updates, including Adolph (PAGA)
• Off-duty cannabis use – discrimination prohibited and new testing requirements
• Reproductive health decision-making protections
• New protected leave of absence
• Meal and rest period premiums as wages
• Minimum wage increases (local and state)
• Non-competes no more – even out of state!
• NLRB rulings (non-competes, severance agreements)
• IRS mileage rates for 2024
• Handbook updates for 2024

A handout with new laws and tips will be provided.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Jonathan Light has over 30 years of employment law experience and has been named multiple times as one of Southern California’s “SuperLawyers” by Los Angeles Magazine. Jon and his LightGabler team consult with over 1,500 companies throughout California regarding their day-to-day employment law needs. Jon has successful jury and court trial, appellate, Labor Commission and arbitration results in claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment and class action. He has also testified in court as an expert on wage and hour issues. Heavily involved in local business, professional and community activities, Jon has been active in several organizations: CSUCI Business School Advisory Council; Ventura County Bar Association (Past President); Volunteer Legal Services; Footworks Youth Ballet; the Ventura County Boy Scout Council; Newbury Park High School Mock Trial team; and Camarillo Academic Olympics. He is also a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. Jon graduated from the UCLA School of Law as a member of the Law Review. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball. He lives in Camarillo with his wife of 35 years, Angela. Their 28-year-old twin daughters live on the east coast after attending Yale and Georgetown.