You, The Law, and Unpaid Sleep Time The California Supreme Court in Mendiola v. CPS Security Solutions clarified an employer’s ability to use unpaid sleep time for workers who work overnight shifts or shifts lasting longer than 24 hours, and significantly limited the exemptions permitting employers to not pay wages for sleep time. In Mendiola, […]
Take two Aspirin and call your favorite Employment Law Attorney for the Legal Rx Not surprisingly, we have received plenty of questions since the passage of AB 1522, the new, “Healthy Workplace, Healthy Families Act of 2014” requiring almost all employers to provide three paid sick days per year to most of their employees. The […]
By Alfred J. Landegger, Esq.: Al’s commentary after attending a recent conference on the changes in California’s employment law and how our state has the highest employment litigation in the country.
As if Employers are not already reeling under the burden of new California Wage and Hour Laws, cities like Los Angeles, are now adding an additional layer of concern with a broad and complicated minimum wage and sick time ordinance singling out the Hotel Industry, as well as studying the possibility of additional, broader proposals […]
Dear Clients and Friends: 1981 was a fortuitous year for me, and as a young attorney, I was fortunate to meet the Executive Director of the Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services. This was the first nonprofit organization I represented and I rapidly grew to appreciate the impact that the nonprofit world has on all […]
WELL…..THERE THEY GO AGAIN! The Calif. Legislature and our Governor have joined together to further confound California Employers already reeling from the last deluge of costly and quarrelsome laws foisted upon them in January. It is not our calling to politicize the source of Bills that have recently been signed into law. On the other […]
When September 10, 2014 – 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST Register For This Webinar NOVAtime Announces Upcoming Free Live Webinar: Wage & Hour: Understand the Laws and Avoid Litigation NOVAtime invites business owners and HR professionals to register for its free webinar: Wage & Hour: Understand the Laws and Avoid Litigation, to be held online on […]
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By Brian Ewing On October 11, 2013, Governor Jerry Brown signed a law extending greater employment protections to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Senate Bill 400 prohibits terminating, or otherwise discriminating or retaliating against, an employee because he or she is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, if the […]