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Membership Benefits:

  • An assigned, dedicated Human Resource expert, available on site, or by phone or email
  • Free one hour compliance review
  • Unlimited telephone and email consultations with a Regional Director
  • Unlimited access to HR Answers Now!, the comprehensive on line compliance tool
  • Job Descriptions Now - helps you customize job descriptions
  • Performance Reviews Now - simplify & customize performance reviews
  • CEA Video Lending Program - Free Safety videos your company to borrow
  • Expert Labor Law Attorney advice through your Regional Director
  • One Free Employment Law Poster the first year
  • CEA Sample Employee Handbook and annual updates
  • Monthly CEA Newsletter "The California Employers Report"
  • CEA Weekly Update - emailed weekly bulletin on current HR issues
  • Eligibility for discounts on CEA-offered products
  • As a CEA member you can receive up to a 30% discount on your payroll provider, by using PrimePay.
  • 8 to 15 hours annually, depending on number of employees, for consultation and services relative to employment issues*
  • *$145/hour after consultation hours are exceeded

Dues Investment:

  • $895.00 per year, plus $25.00 per employee per year.
  • Flat rate for less than 10 employees $1145.00/year
  • Flat rate for over 120 employees - $3895.00
  • One-time administrative fee: $150.00

*Consultation Hours: Premier Members receive a set of consultation hours. A consultation hour is the time available to a member during its 12-month member year to receive professional human resource management and labor relations consultation at no extra charge*. The number of consultation hours available is determined by the number of employees.