The beginning of 2025 presents an ideal opportunity for companies to perform a California employment law audit. This proactive step ensures your policies align with current regulations, your managers receive proper training, your company retains required records for the appropriate duration, and will greatly reduce potential PAGA penalties under the 2024 PAGA reform. To help

With the end of summer quickly approaching, this Friday’s Five (and next week’s post as well) covers broad topics employers should review periodically.  Today’s post covers five questions a company operating in California should be asking on a routine basis:

1. Has the company reviewed and updated the employee handbook and related policies?

As discussed

Is your company in an industry that is likely to be targeted by the Department of Labor (DOL) for FLSA violations, or by the California Labor Commissioner for California Labor Code violations? A review of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour statistics for fiscal year 2014, in connection with California’s Division of Labor Standards