A law in California — the Healthy Workplace Healthy Family Act of 2014 (AB 1522) — will mandate that employers provide sick leave to employees who have worked on or after January 1, 2015.
While many think of a doctor's office as a place of healing and not a place of business, it is still subject to the same posting requirements as every other California workplace.
California’s interests in curbing drug abuse can overcome a patient’s expectation of privacy in his or her prescription history stored on the state’s CURES database, according to the Court of Appeal.
A California law requiring doctors to report individuals who pose a threat while driving can make a sympathetic case even more difficult to defend. Read on to see what happens when one doctor fails to report a person suffering from black-outs.