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FOCUS ON CALIFORNIA WAGE AND HOUR - Ninth Circuit Interprets When Furlough or Temporary Layoff is a Discharge - A recent Ninth Circuit decision imposes new...
A recent Ninth Circuit panel held that Hyatt employees who were “laid off” in March 2020 were entitled to payment of their accrued vacation time immediately, even though the employees...
Employees file wage and hour claim under PAGA
In California, it has long been the rule that an employer is entitled to use a rounding policy “if the rounding policy is fair and neutral on its face and ‘it is used in such a manner...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In California, all employees are presumed to be entitled to overtime, meal periods, and other wage-and-hour regulations unless an employer can prove that its employees “plainly and unmistakably” fall within the terms of an exemption. A recent appellate case addressed for the first time whether a compensation plan based solely on commissions, with a recoverable draw against future commissions, qualifies as a “salary” for purposes of the administrative exemption. The appellate court, reviewing the pay system in question, rever...