Seminar on New Paid Sick Leave Law

Description

Attorney Joseph T. Ortiz will provide an overview of AB 1522 (Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014) requirements for paid sick leave. The law becomes effective as of July 1, 2015, and there are notice provisions that need to be addressed. Employers are advised to make sure their sick leave policies provide the minimum levels of sick leave required under the new law. This presentation will go over (1) who is covered; (2) the expanded use of sick leave under the law; (3) the minimum requirements for compliance; (4) notice requirements; and (5) potential ramifications.
 

Joseph T. Ortiz is a partner in Best Best & Krieger LLP’s Labor and Employment practice group in the Riverside office. An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Ortiz has successfully tried employment matters before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration tribunals on claims of all types.

Mr. Ortiz's experience includes the representation of private and municipal employers in employment matters of all kinds, such as claims of wrongful termination, claims of discrimination and harassment and related claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of implied employment contract, interference with prospective economic advantage, unfair competition, breach of contract, civil rights, and the various forms of unfair business practices. Mr. Ortiz has also represented management before federal and state administrative agencies including the NLRB, PERB, EEOC, DFEH, U.S. Department of Labor, DLSE, State Labor Commissioner, and, in limited instances, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. 

Mr. Ortiz also provides employers a variety of services including drafting employee handbooks, employment and severance agreements, consultant agreements, independent contractor agreements, and employment policies of all types; providing in-house training on sexual and other types of harassment avoidance; and providing consultation on all types of employment discrimination, wage and hour issues, affirmative action, and sensitivity and diversity concerns.

Mr. Ortiz recently taught employment law as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Riverside extension program.

Education

• University of Minnesota, J.D. (2001)
• University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.

Bar Admissions

• California (2002)