In Augustus v. ABM Security Services, Inc., the California Supreme Court issued a ruling on employer’s obligations to permit employees to take “off-duty” rest periods. The Court’s ruling ends 2016 with a major ruling on issues surrounding rest periods under California law.
The plaintiffs worked as security guards for defendant ABM. The employer required
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rnia employers cannot forget about detailed employment provisions such as reporting time pay. This Friday’s Five provide a list of five things California employers should understand about reporting time pay:
1. What is reporting time pay?
California law requires an employer to pay “reporting time pay” under the applicable Wage Order. This requires that
I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving weekend. This Friday’s Five is about five common questions I’m receiving from California employers at the close of 2016.
1. Does the legalization of recreational use of marijuana in California with the passage of proposition 64 change employer’s rights to prohibit it in the workplace?
No. Proposition
Employers across the nation have been preparing to increase salary levels for managers to meet the higher salary level requirements implemented by the Department of Labor earlier this year under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL rules were set to take effect on December 1, 2016, and require that employers must pay employees
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
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.
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