Employers: If an Employer Like Hyatt Regency Long Beach Is Fined $4.7 Million for Violating COVID-19 Right to Recall Law, You Know It is Time to Make Sure you Don’t California’s Labor Commissioner fined Hyatt Regency Long Beach $4,799,564 for failing to timely offer job positions to 25 employees who...
EMPLOYER OWNERS CHARGED WITH FELONY FOR NOT PAYING EMPLOYEES FULL WAGES Employers who underpay employees now not only face potential civil lawsuits, but in a historic move, the California Labor Commissioner and Los Angeles District Attorney have joined forces to criminally prosecute employers. Recently, the owners of a manufacturing company...
MIND YOUR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PRACTICES The California Labor Commissioner just cited Five Wingstop fast food restaurants and their owner $3,161,606 for “wage theft” violations for 551 workers. The owner created separate corporate entities for each of his restaurants, making it seem that each restaurant was a different employer, which deprived...
NEW LAW BANNING EMPLOYEE NON-COMPETE CLAUSES (IN EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS AND AGREEMENTS) California’s Senate Bill 699 (along with existing laws), bans (actually voids) agreements that purport to restrain an employee from competing with the employer: Existing law (Business & Profession Code 16600) states "Every contract by which anyone is restrained from...
Los Angeles City Employee Postings and Requirements – New Ones The City of Los Angeles is special. Besides a new minimum wage coming July 1, 2023 of $16.78 (yes, check your payrolls), the Fair Work Week Ordinance (“FWWO”) took effect on April 1, 2023, which imposes new requirements on retail...
U.S Court of Appeals Back East Says PTO is NOT Salary In the case of Higgins v Bayada Home Health, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal court covering Delaware, New Jersey, Eastern/Middle and Eastern Pennsylvania, says paid time off (“PTO”) is not salary for purposes of the Fair...
New Relaxed Covid Isolation Requirements The California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) revised the COVID guidelines to match the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommendations for Isolation and Precautions for People with COVID-19: •Employees can leave isolation after five days if they are feeling well,...
Highly Compensated Employees Paid Daily Are Entitled To Overtime Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled today that highly compensated employees are eligible for overtime pay. The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt that because a former employee was paid on a daily basis...
Employers Must Pay Mileage Effective January 1, 2023, the IRS standard mileage reimbursement rate for cars, vans, pickups or panel trucks increased as follows: •65.5 cents per mile driven for business use (up three cents from the 2022 mid-year increase); •22 cents per mile driven for...
Federal Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Coming On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a RULE that would essentially ban all employee non-competes, such as restrictive covenants that contractually prohibit an employee from competing against a former employer. The FTC explained that “non-competes constitute an unfair method of competition and...