California Employment Law Update : Labor and Employment Lawyers & Attorneys : Proskauer Rose Law Firm : Wage & Hour Laws, Disability, Workplace Safety

Recent developments demonstrate that an employer’s uniform policy of classifying employees as exempt from wage-and-hour laws is insufficient to establish the requirements of class certification.

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It's that time of the year. School is out. The weather is warm. And high school and college students all over the country are descending on the workforce in search of temporary summer employment. That means it's also time for businesses who take on temporary summer workers to familiarize themselves with the federal and state regulations governing the wages and hours of "interns."

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On Wednesday, June 23, 2010, I will be speaking at the 2010 Employment Law Update telephonic conference sponsored by CEB.  It is always a lively and informative program, and I encourage you to enroll.  The program runs from 1:00 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Pacific).  One hour of MCLE credit is available. 

Details after the break. 

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Today, in a decision authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case involving an employee’s assertion that a government employer had violated the Fourth Amendment by unreasonably obtaining and reviewing personal text messages sent and received on employer-issued pagers.  Justices Stevens and Scalia issued concurring opinions.

City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332)

• Full text of decision (pdf)
• Supreme Court docket information

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