FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: John Kabateck, California State Director, john@kabstrat.com or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, anthony.malandra@nfib.org

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 3, 2024 – California’s leading small-business association today is reminding Main Street entrepreneurs throughout the state of the looming July 1 deadline for them to have their workplace violence prevention plans in place and viewable to anyone who requests to see them.

Passage of Senate Bill 553, and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing it into law, created arguably one of the biggest compliance headaches in state history. It’s a law with few exceptions and no grace period, and the deadline fast approaches. To answer some of many questions about workplace violence prevention plans, NFIB California invited Hannah Sweiss, an employment law expert with Fisher Phillips, to give small-business owners an informative overview of what lies ahead for them, if they haven’t already produced their plans. The 49-minute webinar can be heard through this web story.

“This is not the nightmare-with-no-end regulation created by the federal Corporate Transparency Act and the hoops it has small businesses jumping through, but instead a big one-time migraine followed by periodic nagging headaches,” said John Kabateck, NFIB California state director. “After all, small-business owners have nothing better to do with their time than spend a couple of days every week filling out state and federal compliance requirements.”

In Episode 36, Lawmakers Push to Stop National Small Business Registry, of a recently posted 23-minute NFIB Small Business Rundown podcast, NFIB Vice President of Government Relations Jeff Brabant and two congressional guests detail some of the compliance requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act.

[Note to Editors, Reporters] Opinions expressed in this news release do not necessarily reflect those of the podcast and webinar guests or any business mentioned.

Keep up with the latest on California small-business news at www.nfib.com/california or by following NFIB on Twitter @NFIB_CA or on Facebook @NFIB.CA.

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