Employment law issues to consider during wild fires in Southern California

With the fires effecting large portions of Southern California and Los Angeles this week, it is a good time to review some of the obligations employers have in regards to pay and leave issues during times of natural disasters.  The picture above is one I took showing the smoke covering the northern part of Los Angeles on a flight to Napa on Thursday night.  It was just a couple of months ago I wrote about this topic when Napa faced the same situation of wild fires in October.  So for regular readers of the blog, this article will be a refresher course, but I thought it would be important to cover this topic again in today’s Friday Five: