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...

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...

Some Thoughts on Internal Workplace Investigations

We’ve all been there. It’s a busy afternoon. You receive an employee complaint via email. You think to yourself, “What do I do now?” The short answer: If there are key facts you do not know, you need to investigate the complaint. Once an employer is on notice of...

California Paid Sick Leave for Part-Time Employees

One of the most common questions employers ask us about California’s paid sick leave law is how it applies to part-time employees. Below we identify the three most common methods of calculating paid sick leave and address how they apply to part-time employees. Accrual...

Timekeeping Tips in Honor of Daylight Saving Time

For reasons that we will never quite understand, daylight saving time is once again upon us. In the spirit of mourning the hour all lost this weekend, here are our top 10 timekeeping tips for employers: Non-exempt employees must be paid for every minute they work....

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