A recent decision by California’s Second District Court of Appeal on commission-based pay for rest breaks raises more questions than it answers. And if it isn’t accepted by California’s Supreme Court for review, or contradicted by another appellate ...
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Wage and Hour
New Federal Overtime Rules Suspended and Will Not Take Effect December 1
On November 22, 2016, Judge Amos L. Mazzant, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, halted implementation of the new federal overtime rules that were set to take effect on December 1. He agreed with numerous states and business ...
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Pay Stub Data Reporting of Accrued Vacation
California’s hodge-podge of overlapping and confusing wage and hour laws forces employers to guess whether their pay practices are lawful. This is particularly true with respect to the preparation of pay stubs. Each year, pay stub law evolves and ...
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Travel Time Pay and Exempt Status Determinations Can Be Challenging: What Can We Learn from Recent Class Action Filings?
Small and midsize companies with limited resources are understandably challenged to comply with the complexities of wage and hour law. But what about large corporations with layers of HR and other specialists to help management toe the line or the ...
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Podcast: Three Reasons Employers are More Likely to Be Sued in California than Employers in Other States
Employers doing business in the Golden State are confronted with more legal challenges from their employees than are those in just about any other state. The goal of this podcast is to give you an overall heads-up on the most common legal ...
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Rest Break Law Class Actions, California: It Won’t Get Easier
This article was coauthored with Bianca M. Rodriquez, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2018, U.C. Davis School of Law
Meal and rest break law class action suits by employees continue to plague California employers, despite the best efforts or well-meaning ...
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Wage Statement Class Actions – Avoid the “Gotcha”
In 2013, changes to California Labor Code section 226 brought dire warnings of an impending wave of employee class action lawsuits relating to inaccurate or incomplete wage statements. And it happened. Changes to the statute made it much easier to ...
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Devastating Wage Hour Lawsuits and Class Actions: Five Tips to Avoid Them
Healthcare and other aging services employers in California have been hit with a barrage of employee wage hour lawsuits in the last few years. Many good companies (large and small), caught off guard by technical labor law violations, have paid out ...
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