The DOL’s change in the federal overtime rules requiring a higher salary threshold ($47,476 paid annually) for employees to qualify as an exempt employee takes effect December 1, 2016. This Friday’s Five discusses five final checklist items California employers should consider when reclassifying from exempt employees to nonexempt employees.
1. The DOL rule changes are
USCIS has published a revised Form I-9 that employers can begin to use immediately. The old Form I-9 that has the revision date of 03/08/13 can be used until January 22, 2017.
USCIS published two versions of the Form I-9 – one form that can be completed on a computer, and another that is
What a week – and here we are at Friday already. This Friday’s Five focuses on how President Trump could change the employment landscape on the federal and California levels.
1. Department of Labor’s overtime regulations effective December 1, 2016 are still on course to take effect, but could be changed in 2017.
As I’ve
Happy Friday. In this video, I discuss five benefits for California employers to utilize arbitration instead of litigating claims in court.
With attention on the DOL’s salary increase required to meet the white collar exemptions, it is important for employers to remember that this is only one-half of the test to qualify for as an exempt employee. The law also requires that the employee perform more than 50% of their time performing exempt duties. For
This Friday’s five summarizes five new laws that were just approved by the Governor last week, and California employers need to heed going into 2017:
1. AB 1843 – Juvenile Criminal History
The new law prohibits employers from asking or taking into consideration juvenile convictions.
The law states, “employers [are prohibited] from asking an applicant
This Friday’s Five is a bit of everything: news, new California employment laws, and reminders about October 1 deadlines for the City of San Diego:
1. House moves to delay DOL overtime rule implementation.
There is a great article by Lisa Jennings from Nation’s Restaurant News summarizing the House’s move to delay the overtime rule
Welcome to Friday’s Five! Here are five video excepts from a presentation I conducted in September 2016 to a group of restaurateurs:
Please let
Recently, the N
inth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Morris v. Ernst & Young holding that class action waiver in an arbitration agreement were unenforceable because the class action waiver was contrary to the rights provided to employees under the National Labor Relations Act. The ruling is contrary to the holdings in