Did You Know?

Whether you are looking to impress your colleagues or just want to learn more about the law, LCW has your back! Use and share these fun legal facts about various topics in labor and employment law.

• Effective January 1, 2024, most employers cannot discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person, if the discrimination is based upon any of the following:

◦ The person’s use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace; or

◦ An employer-required drug-screening test has found the person to have non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in their hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids.

• Under AB 367, all California public schools, including community college districts and California State Universities, are required to stock free menstrual products in restrooms for students in the sixth grade and up.

• Effective January 1, 2023, SB 523 amends the Fair Employment and Housing Act to include “reproductive health decisionmaking” as a protected category. This law prohibits discrimination on the basis of reproductive health decisionmaking. This amendment also makes it unlawful for an employer to require, as a condition of employment, continued employment, or a benefit of employment, the disclosure of information relating to an applicant’s or employee’s reproductive health decisionmaking. Under this new law, “reproductive health decisionmaking” includes, but is not limited to, “a decision to use or access a particular drug, device, product, or medical service for reproductive health.”