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Presented by:  Patricia Eyres, Managing Partner, Eyres Law Group

Annual Legislative Recap: New Laws that Impact Public Sector in 2025 and Beyond

The California legislature always manages to enact a “flurry” of bills with significant expansions of employee rights and associated employer risks in employment, education and public sector law. This year is no exception. This webinar will identify and explain the impact all the bills affecting the public sector, including expanded protected leaves, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation traps, workers’ compensation claim management, Education Code, public transparency, labor relations, and more. This webinar is customized for HR professionals, risk management specialists, CBO’s and administrators.

New and amended employment laws under the California Fair Employment & Housing Act, the Labor Code and other applicable laws affecting the public school/ public sector work environment. These new laws impact all employment processes: pre-employment procedures, broadened traps for the unwary with discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, harassment training requirements, mandated leaves of absence, and more.

1.     New and amended provisions of the CA. Labor Code affecting workers’ compensation, retaliation, whistleblowers, caregiver responsibilities.  
2.     New mandated leaves of absence.  
3.     New and amended provisions of the Government Code affecting public entities’ compliance requirements in health and safety and transparency under the CA. Public Records Act.  
4.     Updated provisions of health and safety law and enhanced compliance standards.  
5.     Whistleblower protections and retaliation.  
6.     Legislation affecting workers’ compensation claims.  
7.     New law for school districts protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ students and addressing parental notifications.  
8.     New and amended provisions of the Education Code affecting certificated and classified employees, including impacts on paid and unpaid leaves, discipline and due process, and more.  
9.      New and amended provisions of the Education Code addressing a broad array of rights and responsibilities for students, many of which impact how administrators, teachers and staff interact with and serve the needs of general and special education students, This includes privacy rights for LGBTQ+ students, bullying and harassment prevention, and more.  
10. Update and strategies for portions of the Workplace Violence prevention law that take effect in 2025.

Need More Info or Help?
We hope you can join us. Feel free to contact Doug McGill for more details.

Phone: 916-850-7300
Email: dmcgill@prismrisk.gov