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Now that we are coming upon the New Year, what better time could it be, loyal readers, than now to address all that has happened in the world of labor laws and human resources in California in the past year. The New Year, after all, is about airing dirty laundry, rehashing the recent past, learning from our mistakes, celebrating our accomplishments, and moving forward into the new year with a clean conscience and an eye for the future.

What did all of that mean just now? I am not sure myself, but I think what I was trying to say is: Before we move ahead and look at all of the labor laws and regulations that California’s employers will have to worry about new in the year 2007, we should make sure we have a firm grasp of all of the labor laws that we were supposed to be following in 2006.

Some of these new labor laws in California in 2006 included the one that said that all final wages to employees had to be paid by direct deposit to the employee’s bank account where they had been sending their direct deposits all along. That is a pretty big new labor law, though it doesn’t sound like much. Previously, of course, as anybody who has quit or left a job may know, employers would send your last paycheck in the mail, or give it to you on your final day.

Another California labor law that you may not have heard about in 2006 affects all employers who deal with minors on their payrolls. The law stated that the period for minors to file a claim under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, or FEHA, could be extended beyond the time that they are legally considered a minor. That time would be one year past their 18th birthday.

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