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A Catalina Island hotel and restaurant operator delivered $1.5 million to the court for unpaid wages and was ordered to pay $96,000 to California's Employment Development Department.

Wages & HoursCorrected

A newly approved ordinance requires places of public accommodation, including restaurants and retail shops, to turn on television captions in public spaces.

Accessibility

DFPI's final rules move covered filings and fees through IARD, set an email route for documents IARD cannot accept, tighten state-registration transitions, and add express conduct prohibitions.

Filings & Taxes

Long Beach adopted an immediately effective citywide fee schedule September 8. Restaurant and mobile-food plan checks, several health permits, cannabis charges, and airport ground-transportation fees are among the increases.

Filings & Taxes

DIR reduced several September 1 plumbing increases and corrected July 1 apprentice-painter amounts. Contractors using Determination 2026-1 should reconcile the applicable classification, locality, shift, and apprentice period.

Wages & Hours

Final ordinances for Westwood, West Adams, and Venice Beach took effect September 11. Their first-year property assessments total about $4.26 million when district operations begin January 1.

Filings & Taxes

Ordinance 189027 took effect September 9 and creates a temporary review path for qualifying Games facilities, signs, and uses. Applications are due by August 27, 2028, and the exemptions expire in 2029.

Filings & Taxes

CARB's final Mandatory Reporting Regulation amendments took effect September 1. Certain industrial entities have a 90-day notice duty, while new cement and hydrogen reporting starts with 2027 data.

Filings & Taxes

Ordinance 2099 updates Glendora's ADU, junior ADU, and SB 9 standards. The adopted rules expand multifamily ADU capacity and clarify unit caps, owner occupancy, and processing requirements.

Filings & Taxes

All three listed committees now support the draft after Budget and Finance concurred September 15. The proposed rates are not adopted and have no effective date.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

A new commercial cannabis program for unincorporated San Diego County reserves an initial three-year application window for qualifying social-equity applicants. County license fees start at $22,218 for several business types.

Filings & Taxes

Warehouse and fleet operators can seek funding for zero-emission trucks and supporting charging or hydrogen infrastructure. Applications open October 13 and are reviewed first-come, first-served until December 15 or available funds are reserved.

Filings & Taxes

CARB's final Cap-and-Invest rule creates an optional allowance program for eligible covered industrial facilities. The first applications are due June 1, 2027, and eligible project spending can start September 1, 2026.

Filings & Taxes

Southern California Edison is accepting facility-level attestations for the California Industry Assistance Credit through September 30. An eligible non-MRR facility must file this year to receive its April 2027 credit.

Filings & Taxes

Developers, property owners, surveyors, and engineers using Orange County's map-review services now face a new fee and deposit schedule. The adopted schedule sets a $5,581 tract-map base deposit, a $5,278 parcel-map base deposit, and new rates for related land-record work.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

Amended Rule 1157 adds construction and demolition debris transfer stations and tightens dust-control, sign, inspection, and recordkeeping duties for aggregate operations. New transfer-station coverage and registration begin March 4, 2027.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

Landlords covered by California's no-fault termination rules now owe three months' rent or a final three-month rent waiver in qualifying Alhambra cases. The city ordinance took effect September 6.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

Six Los Angeles ordinances changed parcel zoning and project review across Boyle Heights on August 20. Businesses, property owners, and applicants should verify the new zone before seeking a building permit, changing a use, signing a lease, or planning construction.

Filings & Taxes

A draft package would create annual city licensing for salons and other personal-care businesses that use private rooms, while adding spacing, visibility, operating-hour, and recordkeeping requirements for massage establishments. The proposals have not been adopted.

Filings & Taxes

Los Angeles raised 2027 cannabis renewal fees and created limited paths for businesses with tax debt, expired licenses, or abandoned applications to seek renewal or reentry. The changes do not erase debt or authorize unlicensed operation.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

The federal Americans with Disabilities Act sets the standard, but a state law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, adds automatic money damages. Together they put roughly a third of the nation's accessibility lawsuits in one state. Here is how the system works and what it covers.

AccessibilityCorrected

The statewide minimum is $16.90 an hour this year, but fast food, healthcare, and dozens of city ordinances set higher rates. What an employer actually owes depends on industry and street address.

Wages & HoursCorrected

California's privacy law covers businesses that cross one of three thresholds. Covered businesses using automated systems for hiring, lending, housing, education, or healthcare decisions face a January 1, 2027 compliance deadline.

PrivacyCorrected

Federal beneficial ownership reporting reversed direction repeatedly for two years. In August 2026 a final rule settled it: companies formed in the United States are permanently exempt, and FinCEN is deleting what U.S. persons already filed.

Filings & TaxesCorrected

California's Private Attorneys General Act lets employees sue over Labor Code violations on the state's behalf. A 2024 reform deal capped penalties for employers who can show they took reasonable steps to comply. Here is how the new structure works.

EmploymentCorrected

SB 399 made mandatory meetings about an employer's political or religious views unlawful. A federal judge enjoined it statewide in September 2025 on preemption and First Amendment grounds. The Ninth Circuit heard argument in July 2026 and has not ruled.

EmploymentCorrected

Since July 2024, California has required most employers to maintain a written workplace violence prevention plan, train employees on it every year, and log incidents. Many small businesses still do not know the rule exists.

Workplace SafetyCorrected