California Employment Law: An Employer's Guide Revised and Updated for 2022

California Employment Law: An Employer’s Guide is the go-to guide for anyone who must contend with employment law in California as part of their day-to-day work, including employers based outside of California with employees working in the state. This valuable reference is comprehensively updated to address new developments in 2021, including: new requirements for severance agreements, new restrictions on non-disparagement agreements, expansion of the California Family Rights Act to include parents-in-law, new Cal/OSHA penalties for “enterprise-wide” and “egregious” violations, and many more.

James J. McDonald, Jr., J.D., SHRM-SCP, SPHR, is managing partner of the Irvine, California office of the labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP. He also teaches labor and employment law in the Human Resources Management Program at the University of California, Irvine.