Tag Archives: California

A reminder on California #MeToo legislation

By Israel Group on March 7, 2019 Posted in Alert

January 1, 2019 marked significant changes to California legislation. Among noteworthy changes are new sexual harassment training requirements, rules addressing the number of females serving on public company boards, and legislation concerning confidential settlement agreements. Learn more… Continue Reading

Sharpen your pencils: California AG’s Office announces start of its important CCPA pre-rulemaking, schedule for its important CCPA rules

By Israel Group on February 18, 2019 Posted in Alert

Businesses have until March 8 to file comments in an important pre-rulemaking proceeding for a critical California AG rulemaking that will clarify the requirements of the CCPA. The California AG will most likely not enforce the CCPA privacy requirements until July 1, 2020. As we have written before, the CCPA is both a landmark privacy … Continue Reading

California Consumer Privacy Act: what’s new for retailers?

By Israel Group on February 7, 2019 Posted in Articles

By Carol A. F. Umhoefer, Jim Halpert, Jennifer M. Kashatus and Andrew A. Kingman The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), adopted last summer, brings to California residents GDPR-like privacy rights, such as rights of access, information and deletion, and institutes statutory damage class actions for most data security breaches. Click here to read the full article.… Continue Reading

Where to incorporate your business: California or Delaware?

By Israel Group on December 10, 2018 Posted in Accelerate

If you are a startup based in California, you may be thinking about incorporating where you are physically located. It is true that, in the short term, incorporating in California will save a few dollars. Founders of investor-funded emerging companies should know that the investors prefer Delaware by a long shot. This is largely due … Continue Reading

California mandates female board directors for publicly held companies

By Israel Group on October 4, 2018 Posted in Articles

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on September 30, 2018 requiring publicly held companies based in California to have at least one female on their boards of directors by the end of 2019, and, depending on the size of their boards, additional females by the end of 2021. Financial penalties will apply for … Continue Reading

California privacy law poised to alter US privacy landscape

By Israel Group on July 5, 2018 Posted in Articles

For decades, US state legislatures have taken an incremental approach to privacy regulation, passing legislation that addressed specific privacy issues (eg, a host of employee privacy laws, online privacy policy requirements, SSN privacy) but rejecting bills proposing broad-based creation of new privacy rights. This pattern changed abruptly this week in California, where both houses of … Continue Reading