by Jennifer Shaw and Melissa Whitehead | Mar 5, 2021
In the words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Yup. That’s where we are in employment law right now. Here are a few updates and pending deadlines for employers: California Pay Data...
by Jennifer Shaw and Melissa Whitehead | Mar 4, 2021
Non-exempt employees must be paid for all of their work time. To simplify timekeeping calculations, many employers have adopted “rounding” practices. They record employees’ time in pre-defined increments, such as quarter hours. Let’s say, for instance, that Tom...
by Jennifer Shaw | Feb 19, 2021
If you pay employees a “flat” or automatic amount for reimbursement of their expenses, such as cell phone and internet charges, this new 9th Circuit case is important: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/02/08/19-55784.pdf. The Court ruled that an...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Dec 30, 2020
“When you write, you’re wrong.” A former partner passed along that advice to me, perhaps 15 years ago. It was a warning, after he learned I had been sending informal legal update emails to “clients and friends.” I wrote emails because that firm had no blogs at that...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Dec 26, 2020
Here is installment #25 of our ongoing series of COVID-related posts of interest to California employers. As of this writing, 12/26, it looks like Congress is NOT extending the “FFCRA” mandatory paid sick leave or special COVID expanded Family and Medical...
