CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT LAW PROTECTS EMPLOYEES UNAUTHORIZED TO WORK

As anyone paying attention to the news is aware, immigration is a politically charged and volatile issue. Employers as a result must sort through a morass of laws and regulations. There are specific laws and procedures applicable to the employment of non-citizens. It...

EMPLOYMENT INVESTIGATION ADVICE FROM THE GREAT DETECTIVE NOVELS

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. Raymond Chandler, “The...

EMPLOYERS MUST COMPLY WITH STATE LAWS ON MEAL BREAKS, REST PERIODS

California employers must furnish employees with both rest periods, which are paid, and meal periods, which are not paid. These requirements first appeared in the Industrial Welfare Commission’s Wage Orders in 1916. But in 2000, the Legislature imposed on...

WELL-INTENTIONED PRE-EMPLOYMENT INQUIRIES MAY RESULT IN ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION

You need to examine how your policies affect applicants and employees. The basic premise of federal anti-discrimination laws is simple to articulate: to avoid liability, employers must not make any employment decisions that are based on illegal criteria such as race,...

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