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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Wage and Hour
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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California’s Fair Pay Act, Wage Statements, and More: Six New Year’s Resolutions for Employers in ‘16
California's Fair Pay Act went into effect with the new year and the California Labor Code now sets forth specific categories of information that each wage statement must contain. Resolve to stay on top of those and other California employment laws. ...
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The California Fair Pay Act
The California Fair Pay Act (SB 358, Jackson) - signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown - expands equal pay requirements for “substantially similar work” performed by men and women regardless of location. This expansion will have practical ...
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Attributing Commissions to Minimum Wage Obligations: Court Sets Limits
In deciding Peabody v. Time Warner Cable (SC S2048047/14/14), the California Supreme Court considered whether an employer may attribute commission wages paid in one pay period to other pay periods in order to satisfy California’s compensation ...
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