Posts Tagged ‘California Employment Law’
CITY OF LOS ANGELES CASTS LIGHT ON ITS NEW MINIMUM WAGE AND PAID SICK LEAVE ORDINANCES
As we have reported, all businesses with employees working within the geographic boundaries of the City of Los Angeles (City) are potentially subject to its new minimum wage and paid sick leave rules: Ordinance No. 184320 and Ordinance No. 184319 (Work Ordinances). See, e.g., Latest Minimum Wage Increases for California Cities, City of Los Angeles […]
NO CHANCE OF RESCUE FROM SAFE HARBOR
California’s Piece Work Employers Urgently Face Multiple Actions to Comply Fully with New Law A court order on the eve of a July 1 deadline threw into doubt whether California would be able to immediately enforce its new piece work compensation law, Labor Code 226.2. See, Storm Brewing Over Piece Work Safe Harbor (July, 2016). […]
LATEST MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
REQUIRE NEW NOTICES Continuing the trend of escalating minimum wage laws, numerous cities and one county in California increased their minimum wage effective July 1, 2016. See, for example, our blogs on San Francisco, Santa Monica, Pasadena, Los Angeles City, and Los Angeles County. The laws vary in their application to smaller and larger employers, […]
SCHEDULING VACATIONS IS NO VACATION
Coordinating Employee Summer Time-Off Can Be an Exercise in Diplomacy No California employer is obligated to provide paid vacation time to its workers. However, such benefit is a common practice, promoting morale and productivity. Once a company grants paid vacation (say, one week annually), it is considered an accruing benefit, i.e., an employee earns it […]
BUSINESSES EMPLOYING 26-PLUS MUST IMPLEMENT LOS ANGELES’ PAID SICK LEAVE BY JULY 1, 2016
City’s Paid Sick Leave Notice Now Available The City of Los Angeles (City) recently increased minimum wage and doubled California’s paid sick leave requirements (Ordinance No. 184320) for “Employees,” i.e., workers performing labor within the City for a given employer for at least two hours in a particular week. (See below for City limits maps.) […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2016 CALIFORNIA’S GRADUAL MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE
California’s Gradual Increases in Minimum Wage, to Reach $15.00 Per Hour by January 1, 2022 On April 4, 2016, California jumped on the “living wage” bandwagon when Governor Brown signed Senate Bill-3 (SB-3) making California one of the first two states in the country to enact a $15 minimum wage. The other was New York, […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2016
Fair Pay Act Aims to Level the Playing Field Law Mandates Equal Pay Between Genders for Equal or Substantially Similar Work SB 358, the “Fair Pay Act,” has been enacted by the California Legislature and signed into law by the Governor. The Act aims to eliminate the gender wage gap between women earning lower rates […]
CALIFORNIA PAID SICK LEAVE LAW
Amendments in Effect July 13, 2015 Our prior articles “Mandatory Paid Sick Leave For California Employees” and “Shall the Fog Be Forever Forsaken? California Labor Commissioner Again Attempts to Resolve Questions on New Paid Sick Leave Benefits Law” cover provisions of California’s new paid sick leave (PSL) Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (the Act), key […]
WHEN DOES THE WORKDAY END?
U.S. Supreme Court Finds An Employer Need Not Pay Wages for Mandatory End-of-the Day Security Checks Under federal law, employees may or may not earn wages for preliminary actions at the beginning or “postliminary” activities at the close of a work day. The issue is determined on close attention to the context on a case-by-case […]
CALIFORNIA LAW PROTECTS UNDOCUMENTED EMPLOYEES FROM WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION
As we have described in California’s Expanded Immigration-Related Protections and California Extends Protections for Whistleblowing Employees, several California laws protect employees, regardless of undocumented status, from actual or threatened retaliation for demanding workplace rights. These state protections of immigrant workers, some of the strongest nationwide, would seem at odds with the federal law (Title 8, […]