Starting Monday, grocery stores, drug stores and big box retailers in the City of Los Angeles will be required to pay “Premium Hazard Pay” – an additional $5.00 per hour
Continue Reading City of Los Angeles Imposes “Hero Pay” Requirement – Risks and Ramifications
The fate of rideshare companies in California has taken several dramatic twists today following last week’s preliminary injunction enjoining Lyft and Uber from classifying their drivers as independent contractors.
The
Continue Reading Shutdown Averted – Lyft and Uber’s AB-5 Battle With California Heats Up
I am both proud and excited to be featured in two new training videos for workplace supervisors and human resources representatives handling California-specific and federal wage and hour issues.
Developed
Continue Reading California Wage & Hour Training Video Featuring Nancy Yaffe
Calculating the correct overtime pay rate in California has long been a complicated process. The basic overtime rate is defined as one and a half times an employee’s “regular
Continue Reading California Supreme Court Clarifies Overtime Calculation
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
Continue Reading Where Do Fitness Instructors “Fit” in the Current Worker Classification System?
Wages, salaries, and benefits make up a large proportion of costs for most businesses. One way to control these costs is to control how much overtime employees work. In California,
Continue Reading Don’t Let Your Efforts to Reduce Overtime Lead to a Class Action
You don’t need a ton of HR or employment law experience to know that we do things a bit differently in the Golden State. Here are some of the ways
Continue Reading 7 Ways That Following Federal Employment Law Violates California Law
Back in January 2012 I blogged about regular rate issues as an anticipated hot issue for 2012 and beyond.
In that post I explained that the “regular rate” is not
Continue Reading DOES YOUR PAYSTUB ACCURATELY LIST THE REGULAR RATE?
California law generally requires the payment of overtime to non-exempt employees for hours worked over 8 in one workday, and over 40 in one workweek, and on the 7th day
Continue Reading Why Salaried Non-Exempt Employees Are a Bad Idea (AB 2103)
California employees are exempt from the overtime requirements if they satisfy the executive, professional, or administrative exemptions. Of these, the administrative exemption is the least well-defined.
Much of this uncertainty
Continue Reading The Latest (But Not Last) Word on the Administrative Exemption in California