Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Probably not. Generally, an employer must pay employees for any mandatory training sessions and must reimburse employees for expenses incurred at the direction of the employer. Call an employment lawyer to discuss.

It depends on whether the employer conducts the first aid training or not. It sounds like you are required to take Red Cross or other outside organization's training. In that case your employer is not obligated to pay you for the time or expense, and your employer is not obligated to pay you for submitting a driving record. In many industries it is standard practice for the employer to pay for these things, or provide an expense allowance for it, but it is not required by law. Your employer is entitled to require you to maintain certifications and records that the employer considers, or the law requires, to be necessary for the job. When I have been an employee of a law firm at times in my career, sometimes they paid my Bar dues and Mandatory Continuing Legal Education expenses, other times I was given an expense allowance toward those costs, and at one small firm they did not cover it at all. All perfectly legal.