Service Offering Construction Company Sued for $6,300,338, Alleged Misclassification of Independent Contractors Contractors breaking ground (1923) The California Labor Commissioner has sued Glendale-based Calcrete Construction, Inc. claiming $6,300,338 for the company’s willful misclassification of some 175 persons as independent contractors…
Service Offering PAID SICK LEAVE BENEFITS, A NATIONWIDE LIST Is Your Business Affected? Doctor, patient and family, circa 1903 Currently, no federal paid sick leave law exists. However, over the last decade, many states, counties and cities have passed distinct…
Service Offering San Francisco Workplace Ordinance Directs Time and Space for Nursing Mothers Baby, circa 1910 San Francisco is the first California city to enact an ordinance requiring private employers to provide lactation breaks and rooms to employees who are…
Service Offering California’s Updated Guidelines for Hiring Interviews and Applications White Wolf a.k.a. Chief John Smith (Chippewa Tribe) Born 1785, Died 1922 California employers must comply with increasingly complex anti-discrimination laws. See, New Transgender Rights in the Workplace (July, 2017),…
Service Offering Two Tow Companies Owe $4.8 Million In Unpaid Minimum Wages, Overtime Towing, early 1920s The California Labor Commissioner has announced a $4,874,661 award against Irvine Auto Towing, Inc. and Yaco Investments, Inc. for multiple wage theft violations affecting 187…
Service Offering San Francisco Bars Employers Asking Applicants for Pay History Equal pay protest, 1909 Taking a cue from the California Equal Pay Act (2016), San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has passed a city-wide “Parity in Pay Ordinance” promoting gender…
Service Offering A Minimum Wage and Overtime Recovery For Three Times Amount Claimed Abbott & Costello, 1955 California was among the first states to require a minimum hourly wage, 16 cents in 1916. Federal law finally joined the trend in…
Service Offering California Municipal Minimum Wage Rates Continue to Grow First map of Hollywood, H.H. Wilcox Realtors, 1887. California hourly minimum wage is currently $10.50 for employers with 26 or more on payroll and $10.00 for employers with 25 or…
Service Offering Expanded California Regulations Effective July 1, 2017 California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) recently heeded Dylan’s lyric “the times they are a-changin’” and released Regulations Regarding Transgender Identity and Expression. Effective July 1, 2017, the new…
Service Offering Just When You Thought You Had the Right Form, Feds Issue New One Immigrants, Ellis Island, New York, 1907 The federal government requires employers to verify identity and work authorization of their employees using a Form I-9 (Employment…