Brubaker v. Strum, 2023 WL 179541 (Cal. Ct. App. 2023)
The family court ordered the employed former husband in this case to pay his former wife monthly child and spousal support payments; the husband’s employer was ordered to withhold the total amount of support payments from the husband’s paychecks and to forward those amounts to the California Child Support Services Department. Later, the wife
Effective January 1, 2023, California employers will be required to meet new minimum wage requirements, at both the state and local level. This increase in the minimum wage affects not only non-exempt employees, but also the minimum annual salary requirement for overtime exempt employees.
Increase and Consolidation of the California Minimum Wage
Previously, the State of California employed a two-tiered minimum wage system, requiring employers
In a much anticipated ruling, on May 23, 2022, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Naranjo et al. v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc. Previously, the Court of Appeal held that unpaid premium payments for meal period violations did not entitle employees to additional penalties for either inaccurate wage statements or failure to timely pay wages upon separation of employment. The Court of
Christmas came early this year for California employers. Bucking the trend of unrelentingly bad news for employers in the state, the California Court of Appeal has held that the default (lower) penalties found in the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) and not the heightened penalties set forth in Labor Code section 226.3 (“Section 226.3”) apply to a run-of-the-mill PAGA claim involving allegedly incomplete
We invite you to review our newly-posted July 2020 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:
Ward v. United Airlines, Inc., 2020 WL 3495310 (Cal. S. Ct. 2020)
Plaintiffs are pilots and flight attendants for United Airlines, which is based outside California. Although they reside in California, they perform most of their work in airspace outside of California’s jurisdiction. The employees are not paid according to California wage law, but pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement entered
We invite you to review our newly-posted March 2019 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:
Stratton v. Beck, 30 Cal. App. 5th 901 (2018)
Anthony Stratton filed a claim against Thomas Beck with the labor commissioner for unpaid wages in the amount of $303.55. After conducting an administrative hearing, the labor commissioner awarded Stratton $303.50 plus an additional $5,757.46 in liquidated damages, interest and statutory penalties for a total award of $6,060.96. Beck then filed an appeal in
Donohue v. AMN Servs., LLC, 2018 WL 6445360 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018)
AMN used a computer-based timekeeping system for all nonexempt employees, including plaintiffs/nurse recruiters. The timekeeping system rounded recruiters’ punch times (both punch in and punch out) to the nearest 10-minute increment. To establish the proper hourly compensation, AMN converted each 10-minute increment to a decimal (to the nearest hundredth of a minute),