Posts Tagged ‘california labor law’
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 […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2016
Be Prepared for Statewide and Local Minimum Wage Increases California’s Minimum Wage Increases on January 1 Some Municipalities Will Follow Suit Throughout 2016 California’s minimum wage is increasing in steps. It went to $9.00 per hour on July 1, 2014. It increases to $10.00/hour on January 1, 2016. This rise has numerous repercussions. California’s minimum […]
OAKLAND MINIMUM WAGE ESCALATES TO $12.25
Rate Effective March 2, 2015 Starting March 2, 2015, employers (regardless of where located) must pay wages of at least $12.25 per hour to each employee who performs work within Oakland, California (including part-time employees). This minimum wage requirement, pursuant to Measure FF and set forth in Oakland Municipal Code section 53.92.020, applies to any […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2015 EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAFFING AGENCY LABOR VIOLATIONS
Business Must Carefully Balance the Risks Effective January 1, 2015, California Assembly Bill 1897 makes employers that hire workers from staffing agencies automatically liable for wages and workers’ compensation violations by the staffing agencies. Labor unions promoted this new law. The California Chamber of Commerce opposed it. AB 1897 makes it easier for a worker […]
MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR 2015
IRS has pumped it up again In a December 10, 2014 directive, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has increased its optional standard mileage reimbursement rate for an employee’s business use of his or her vehicle from 56 cents in 2014 to 57.5 cents in 2015. The government calculates the mileage rate by an annual study […]
CALIFORNIA LABOR LAWS 2015 CALIFORNIA EXPANDS NATIONAL ORIGIN DISCRIMINATION DEFINITION
The Effect of an “Undocumented” Driver’s License On Workplace Policy and Procedure is Touchy In 2013, Assembly Bill [AB] 60 created Vehicle Code section 12801.9 authorizing the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to provide driver’s licenses to undocumented individuals. AB 60 thus directs the DMV to accept alternative satisfactory forms of proof of identity […]
WHEN IGNORANCE IS AN EXCUSE
An Employer is Not Responsible to Pay Off-the-Clock Work Time about Which It Knows Nothing A company normally must compensate an employee for any time he/she put in service to that company even if such work was not authorized. Thus, while an employer can issue policy barring overtime work or policy requiring advance approval for […]
EMPLOYER WINS BATTLE BUT LOSES WAR
Company Ordered To Pay Worker’s $700,000 Attorney Bill United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) essentially “won” an age discrimination case when a California jury awarded an ex-employee only $27,280 in damages. That relative victory was short-lived, erased by the trial judge awarding the worker $700,000 for her attorney fees. The appeals court recently upheld this decision. […]
CALIFORNIA’S EXPANDED IMMIGRATION-RELATED PROTECTIONS
New for 2014 While employers are barred by federal law from knowingly employing unauthorized immigrants, companies are also barred from treating any immigrant unfairly, whether or not authorized to work in the U.S. New California laws for 2014 provide the strongest anti-retaliation protections for immigrant workers in the country. This legislation penalizes employers who threaten […]