CALIFORNIA'S NEW BUSINESS LAWS for 2017
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS and JURISDICTION IN SB124, effective January 1, 2017, the California legislature is attempting to assure that workers who work for out-of-state employers are able to adjudicate their disputes in California. Specifically, the law states that employees who principally work and reside in California cannot be required by employers to enter agreements that would resolve their claims in out-of-state forums or litigate claims under the law of another jurisdict