{"id":14950,"date":"2022-09-07T19:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/legal-and-compliance\/state-and-local-updates\/pages\/california-personal-information-privacy-law.aspx"},"modified":"2022-09-07T19:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:16","slug":"california-employers-get-ready-expanded-privacy-compliance-begins-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squarehr.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/california-employers-get-ready-expanded-privacy-compliance-begins-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"California Employers Get Ready: Expanded Privacy Compliance Begins in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past few years, California’s comprehensive privacy law known as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) included an important partial exemption for employees, applicants, and independent contractors, collectively known as workforce members. The California Privacy Rights Act, which amended the CCPA, extended that exemption through Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

While many expected the exemption would be extended, the current California legislative session ended on Aug. 31 without a bill to do so. The failure to get an extension across the legislative finish line leaves CCPA-covered businesses with not much time to begin expanding their CCPA compliance efforts.<\/p>\n

Currently, compliance with respect to workforce members and certain others is limited. It includes, in general, providing a notice at or before the time of collection of personal information and maintaining reasonable safeguards to protect certain personal information. <\/p>\n

By comparison, employers will need to, among other things, expand their privacy policy to address workforce members and be ready to respond to the requests of workforce members concerning their rights under the CCPA, including the right to delete their personal information.<\/p>\n

Another exemption, known as the B2B exemption, generally excluded the personal information of individuals in their capacities as representatives of entities doing business with CCPA-covered businesses. It appears that exemption also will cease to apply in California on Jan. 1, 2023.<\/p>\n

For employers wondering if this applies to them and what needs to be done next, our FAQs<\/a> provide some helpful information, addressing questions such as:<\/p>\n