Every wage and hour case that comes into our office starts the same way. Before we talk strategy and long before mediation, we ask the client for one thing: the raw time and payroll data. Not a summary. The punch-level time records, the payroll register with every pay code, and the wage statements. That data
Scaled Comp’s August Settlement Pulse recorded about 225 California PAGA and wage-and-hour settlements totaling $157.4 million. The medians tell you where the market sat. They don’t tell you why one employer paid six times what another did for nearly the same number of pay periods, what a $6.5 million fund is actually buying, or whether
Employers need to be aware of the requirements and tight deadlines they have in responding to an employee’s request for various employment documents under California law. This Friday’s Five focuses on five areas of records that are typically requested by applicants, current or former employees, and some common deadlines to comply with those requests.
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