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Many California employers are familiar with the three-headed monster of medical leave questions: family medical leave (state and federal), disability leave and accommodation, and workers' compensation leave. The wage and [...]

Applying the Standard for Independent Contractors California has adopted a new ABC test for determining whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor. This new [...]

Many employers fail to fully appreciate the existence of a variety of exemptions from, or waivers of, some of California's strict wage and hour regulations. A quick survey of common [...]

In deciding whether California's overtime laws apply to non-resident employees who spend full days or weeks working in the state, the California Supreme Court has previously held the state's labor [...]

A California appellate court ruled yesterday that workers paid on a commission basis must be separately compensated for legally required rest periods (Vaquero v. Stoneledge Furniture LLC). When combined with [...]

The past several years have been a difficult time for many California employers when it comes to wage and hour compliance. But if enterprising plaintiffs' attorneys have their way, times [...]

Perhaps no field of class action litigation in California is more fraught with complex certification issues than determining whether the administrative exemption applies to network, internet and database administrators or [...]

California employers continue to struggle with how to comply with their obligation to provide meal and rest periods to their non-exempt employees. Although the California Supreme Court's groundbreaking Brinker decision [...]

New Federal Regulations Include A Higher Minimum Salary Requirement As of December 1, 2016, the minimum salary for salaried exempt employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will [...]

Today California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a sweeping plan that will eventually increase the statewide minimum wage from $10.00 to $15.00 per hour. While the state of New [...]

On Monday, March 28, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown, flanked by union and state government officials, announced an agreement with state legislators to increase the statewide minimum wage from $10.00 [...]

Although meal periods have occupied central stage in class action litigation over the past decade in California, rest-period litigation will soon join the 'break wars.' A new law that just [...]

There is nothing so central to wage-hour laws than the sacred domain of 'hours worked.' The concept is simple: employees record the time they spend working, and from this data [...]

California leads the nation in vigilantly regulating the conditions which constitute 'hours worked.' Definitions are established, modified, and expanded by the California Labor Code, its Wage Orders, and decisions by [...]

Three years ago, the California Supreme Court addressed the scope of California's overtime regulations contained in the California Labor Code and Wage Orders promulgated by its Industrial Welfare Commission.Sullivan et [...]

As class actions continue to plague employers in California, one area that is often overlooked is expense reimbursement. The California Labor Code makes clear that employers must indemnify employees for [...]

(California Wage/Hour Update, No. 1, January 2014) As the new year begins, California employers, already weary from added wage and hour laws and regulations enacted over the past several years, [...]

With the increasing focus on wage-and-hour litigation, the issue of an employee's 'regular rate' arises in most every case involving alleged unpaid overtime. It also factors into an employer's payroll, [...]

The salaried exemptions remain an actively litigated area in employment litigation. In order to be exempt from overtime and related regulations governing timekeeping and meal and rest periods, it's not [...]

The author discusses the dynamics of the gig economy, which includes locating, retaining and paying an individual through a smart phone app to perform a single task on demand. It states that lack of legislative action related to gig economy will create significant hurdles between employee and independent contractor, thereby creating an environment of hostility.

The article focuses on the Senate Bill 3 (SB3) that was signed by California Governor Jerry Brown, that puts into force a minimum wage schedule that would increase statewide minimum wage.

The article focuses on the employers who can made choice for meal periods that impose some restrictions. Topics discussed include obligation of employers to provide meal periods to their employees without compromising business interests, meal period regulation to provide employees with meal period during their first five hours of work, and requirement for employees to eat on premises. Also mentioned are Wage Orders, personal employee benefit, and business lunch.