New 2022 California Labor Laws

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October 27, 2021

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APS Payments Becomes REPAY

Same Great Customer Care and Rates,

with More Services

APS Payments, CLIA's preferred credit card processor, was acquired by REPAY in 2019. The company has made a gradual transition to REPAY so that APS Payment clients can adjust. Beginning November 2021, APS Payments and its website, technology platforms, and payment portal will be rebranded to REPAY. At this time, you will notice some changes, such as new REPAY logos and updated employee email addresses and signatures.

REPAY offers many updated features for lodging owners and operators, you can read a lot more detail on this webpage outlining enhanced hospitality management with optimized AP and AR.

Highlights are:

Faster Funding
Elevate Dispute Dashboard
Discounted Lodging Rates
EMV

Visit the CLIA page which includes the hospitality datasheet.

Contact Kim Lombard to learn more about streamlining your AP and AR functionalities, klombard@repay.com.

New 2022 California Employment Laws

by James W. Ward, J.D., Employment Law Subject Matter Expert/Legal Writer and Editor, CalChamber

This year’s legislative session has officially come to an end and, as usual, there are stacks of new laws taking effect in January.

While the COVID-19 pandemic was still challenging for the California Legislature this year, it didn’t stop legislators from sending several hundred bills to Governor Gavin Newsom, many of which impact California employers.

Here’s a quick look at some new laws signed by the governor of which employers should be aware. Unless otherwise stated, they’re effective starting January 1, 2022.

Domestic Visitor Report

Did you know that Visit California provides lots of data about the visitors who come to your area?

Included in Visit California's wealth of data is a summary of overnight domestic visitors to California’s 12 tourism regions. The report shows the volume of visitors by in-state, western market and remaining U.S. states.

Additionally, the report breaks down top metro origin markets within California as well as out-of-state markets.

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS

The Visitor Share Analysis describes the composition of domestic overnight visitors to each region as well as the percent change year over year.
Domestic visitation can be viewed by origin state or filtered to in-state or out-of-state metro market.
The Paid Accommodation Supply & Demand Analysis describes the relative supply of hotel and vacation rentals as well as the change in demand for the current time period versus one year ago.

Want to Make Difficult Conversations Easy? Try This 1 Counterintuitive Trick, According to Psychology

By Scott Mautz, inc.com

The anxiety you feel before entering a tough conversation can be greatly mitigated.

No one looks forward to a difficult conversation, whether it’s with a troubling co-worker, a toxic boss, family, friends, or anyone else. We fear the consequences of having that discussion, picture the anger that might come spewing out, and even feel a pit in our stomach about the whole matter.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Difficult conversations are a part of life and frankly should be had more often.

Why You Should Drive Your Content Strategy Using Entity Optimization

From Milestone Internet Marketing

When developing a robust content strategy, there are two important aspects to take into consideration. The first is the total number of searches carried out, and the second is how Google is choosing to display results for queries using its algorithms.

With over 2 trillion searches being carried out every year according to Google, you’d need to think of all the ways that can get your content above your competition on search. In addition, with Google moving from keyword-SEO to Semantic SEO with the BERT and Passage Ranking Algorithms...

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