by D. Gregory Valenza | Sep 3, 2020
As promised, here are some more quick takes on California employment law (mostly). US DOL Opinion Letters Let’s first start out with the federal DOL’s four new opinion letters. Because some of them may apply in California; some probably do not have much...
by D. Gregory Valenza | May 18, 2020
The Fair Labor Standards Act exempts from overtime premium requirements certain sales employees in the “retail” industry. California’s Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order 7-2001 contains an analogous exemption. Note that the “inside...
by D. Gregory Valenza | Dec 17, 2019
The NLRB and U.S. Department of Labor are delivering some holiday cheer this year. The DOL is revising not only the federal salary basis (scroll down to page 51306 of the PDF here), but also certain regulations governing the calculation of overtime for the non-exempt...