Know Your Rights notice for California employers (2026)
The Workplace Know Your Rights Act (SB 294, Labor Code §§1550–1559) took effect January 1, 2026. Here is the official notice and what you need to do with it.
Download the 2026 notice from the Labor Commissioner
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Send it, collect acknowledgments and the yes/no election, keep the proof
The template is free. Proving each employee got it, in the right language, and recording their emergency contact and detention-notification election is the work. NoticeStamp does that with server timestamps, reminders and SHA-256-stamped PDFs.
Deadlines
By February 1 every year for current employees, and at hire for new employees (§1553(a)).
How to deliver it
A stand-alone written notice, by the way you normally communicate with employees (personal service, email or text), if it can reasonably be expected to arrive within one business day.
Penalties
Up to “five hundred dollars ($500) per employee for each violation”; for the emergency-contact provisions (§1555), up to “five hundred dollars ($500) per employee for each day the violation occurs, up to a maximum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per employee” (§1558(d)).
Free SB 294 template page → · Emergency contact form →
Get Feb 1 deadline reminders
A reminder before the SB 294 deadline, plus launch news.
Not legal advice. Records of what happened, not a guarantee of compliance. Sources: SB 294 chaptered text (Lab. Code §§1550–1559: §1553, §1555, §1558); Labor Commissioner SB 294 page official sources. Not affiliated with the State of California.