As employees begin planning for winter vacations and time off to celebrate, it’s a good opportunity for California employers to review the state’s unique rules regarding vacation policies. To help navigate these complexities, this Friday’s Five highlights five critical vacation policy issues that can create challenges for California employers during the holidays:

1. “Use-it-or-lose-it” policies

Ensuring timely payment of wages is a crucial responsibility for California employers. Following our recent discussion on final pay for employees, several readers raised further questions about wage payment schedules and the handling of tips. In response, this Friday’s Five highlights key reminders about employers’ obligations to timely pay wages and tips under California

We recommend employers develop a separation checklist to ensure the company’s policies are followed as well as all applicable laws that pertain to the employer.  This article provides five issues employers should consider in developing a separation checklist for their company:

1. Documenting reason for termination

Employers should establish a protocol for documenting the reason

Five reminders about the timing and location requirements for providing final wages to employees in California:

  1. An employee who is discharged must be paid all of his or her wages, including accrued vacation, immediately at the time of termination.
  2. An employee who gives at least 72 hours prior notice of quitting, and quits on the

The process of separating an employee from a company must be clearly set out and planned in advance.  I recommend developing a separation checklist so that all of the company’s policies are followed, as well as any applicable laws that pertain to the employer and their industry.  This article is the fourth article in my

With the start of 2019, I’m writing a series of posts covering employment law areas that employers should audit on a routine basis.  The first two articles covered hiring practices and records retention practices.  This post covers five wage and hour considerations that every California employer should review on a routine basis:

1. Payroll

Employee terminations and resignations must be planned for in advance to avoid common pitfalls for California employers.  I’ve recently written about go-to hiring practices for employers, so I thought it would be appropriate to follow that post up with this list of go-to termination practices.  This Friday’s Five focuses on critical management and legal

This week’s Friday Five is a discussion focused on a discussion of considerations employers should make during the termination process, such as:

  • how to document reasons for terminations (and why it is important to be accurate and honest)
  • when final wages are due
  • where to provide final wages
  • payment of expense reimbursements, and
  • direct deposit

Happy Friday!  This Friday’s Five focuses on the termination process.  Employers should develop a termination checklist to ensure all documents and contingencies are consistently covered during the process.  Here are five pointers employers can use to start in developing their own checklist:

1.      Final wages must be timely paid.

The employee’s wages must be paid