Posts Tagged ‘overtime laws’
COMMISSIONED SALES PERSONNEL AND OVERTIME PAY
Must Employers Pay Premiums for Extra Hours Worked? California Labor Code 2751 requires that all California employee commission compensation agreements must be in writing by January 1, 2013. Whether a business already has written commission arrangements with its sales personnel, this impending deadline is incentive to ensure such arrangements are clearly stated and in compliance […]
UNPAID INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS
When Employers Need to Pay Wages Hiring students for temporary unpaid internships, while feasible, is laden with potential legal pitfalls for the unwary and uninformed. See, e.g., “The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not,” The New York Times, April 2, 2010. Employers must pay at least minimum wage to any worker who provides any labor and […]
CALIFORNIA’S EXEMPTIONS FOR OVERTIME PAY
California’s workplace overtime rules do not apply to those workers who qualify for exemption under one or more categories, including: ● Executive Exemption: Executive employees are exempt from overtime if paid on a salary (current minimum is $640 per week; $2,773.33 monthly) and if primarily (over 50%) engaged office or non-manual management of at least […]
WORKING OVERTIME IN CALIFORNIA
Basic Rules and Rates for Weekly or Daily Hours California requires employees who are not “exempt” receive overtime pay for time worked beyond forty hours in any one workweek or after eight hours in a workday. A “workweek” is any seven consecutive days, starting with the same calendar day each week beginning at any hour […]