Documentation for Employers: 101

For any number of reasons, employers may find themselves lacking sufficient documentation supporting their legitimate, business-related reasons for employment-related decisions. Maybe they’ve been avoiding uncomfortable conversations with an employee. Or HR has an...

How to Pay Overtime in California: Part One

(This is part one of a two-part article.  Part two will be published next month.) Even employers with the best intentions find it difficult to understand California’s ever-changing wage and hour laws. One common pitfall is paying overtime (and other forms of...

Return-to-Work Considerations

In the four years since the COVID-19 pandemic made “telework” a household name, many employers have permitted employees to stay home or work a hybrid schedule. However, more and more employers are requiring employees to return to in-person work. As a result, we...

Paid Work Time Just Got More Complicated!

Last week, the California Supreme Court published a much-anticipated opinion related to when an employer’s control over an employee’s activities constitutes “hours worked.” Although the Huerta v. CSI Electrical Contractors opinion primarily relates to rules governing...
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