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Friends, colleagues, loyal readers—I continue my service to you as a provider of all that is labor law news across this great land. Here we continue our look into the labor laws that came into affect in 2006 in California, with the obvious and important notion in mind that we must master what we face now, before we can face what will come at us in 2007. In other words, before we start worrying about the labor laws that will affect California employers in 2007, let’s make sure we know what the heck went on in 2006 in the labor law world in California.

One of these 2006 labor laws in pure California. Hollywood, in fact. The labor law states that a collective bargaining agreement for the motion picture industry’s employees, or employees in the world of broadcasting, which gives those employees meal periods and money payments when those meal periods are missed, is more important than other labor laws, such as those in the California Labor Code and the California Wage Orders. That means that any employer who agrees to these collective bargaining agreements are held to those above all else, even if they say that the employees get five hours of meal time a day.

Another California labor law backs up a federal law when it comes to employee privacy. This 2006 labor law in California stated that all documents that contain personal information on your employees—the kind of personal information that would be included in credit reports—must be destroyed by the employer.

Privacy issues in 2006 were huge news not just in California of course. The whole issue of protecting your employees’ privacy and personal info came into stark spotlight each time an employer or federal agency had a laptop stolen with their employees’ info on it, or their system was hacked into and info stolen.

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