California employers with 100 or more employees are now required to file with the state detailed annual reports setting out demographic, pay and position information on their employees. As for the purpose of requiring the reports, Senate Bill 973 pulls no punches: state government agencies will use the reports against employers for “targeted enforcement
Keeping track of the minimum wage in California is no small task. There are now 32 localities with higher minimum wage rates than the state.
Half Moon Bay and Hayward have joined the list with minimum wage rates that go into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. Novato passed a minimum wage ordinance in 2019 that
California now has 39 separate minimum wages. First, you have two state minimum wages ($12 for employers with 26 or more employees; $11 for 25 or fewer). Then 27 cities have minimum wage ordinances, many of which have multiple minimum wages for different categories of employers. How can anyone keep up with this all?
Easy!
We write a lot about minimum wages. That’s not because we’re unimaginative. We’re very imaginative. We can imagine things that you couldn’t even imag… But I digress.
Our own Tyreen Torner, who gave you a handy summary of all of California’s paid sick leave rules, has now created this chart summarizing all the
I’m having a hard time believing December is here, perhaps partly due to our unseasonably warm temperatures here in LA. The holidays will be quickly upon us and the turn of the new year brings increases in the minimum wage across the state. On January 1, 2018, the California state minimum wage goes up to
Guest blog post by Mikella Wickham:
They say location is everything in business. How about classification of workers?
In certain industries, workers have a unique combination of specified skills and
relative freedom to do their job. As a result, small businesses are stuck between
Its almost July 1st and that means increased minimum wages in the City of Los Angeles as well as under the Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance. Hotel workers covered under the Ordinance will see their hourly rate jump from $15.37 per hour to $15.66 per hour, as announced this morning. Don’t shoot the messenger!
I hope you’ll join my Fox colleagues Keith Chrestionson and Jaemin Chang and me on January 27 for the next in our series of breakfast briefings in our San Francisco office. Our breakfast series explores various topics of interest to the Bay Area’s business communities in informal presentations and interactive Q&A sessions. This session
A new year brings a new top 10 list!
With a very Democratic state legislature that is well positioned to offset a very Republican White House, this Alert sets forth the top 10 trends I saw in my practice from 2016 that inform what
On January 1, 2017, the California minimum wage will increase for businesses with more than 25 employees from $10 per hour to $10.50 per hour. This is another step toward a $15 per hour minimum wage on January 1, 2022. You can see a schedule of the planned increases here. The legislation allows the