California
Every company with distributors or customers in California affected
By Dave Rauf
Companies found in noncompliance can be fined $2,500 if the violation is unintentional and $7,500 if intentional.
Businesses operating in California—including almost every direct selling company in the domestic channel—are now required to comply with a sweeping new privacy law called the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a measure that gives consumers control of how their personal information is used online.
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Current effort would enshrine Dynamex standards into state law
By Teresa Craighead
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has defined sexual harassment in its guidelines as the following: unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:
- Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment, or
- Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as a basis for employment decisions affecting such individual, or
- Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
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