by D. Gregory Valenza | | April 27, 2018
As discussed here, and here, the California Supreme Court held in Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp. of Cal. (original opinion here) that a flat-sum bonus for attendance on certain days is included in the regular rate of pay, and that regular rate is calculated by...
by D. Gregory Valenza | | March 7, 2018
A colleague wrote re my post about Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp. (Original post here). I know, I was surprised someone read it, too. Anyway, she identified a pretty glaring error in the analysis. Before you point and laugh, the error wasn’t mine, but rather...
by D. Gregory Valenza | | March 6, 2018
The “regular rate” of pay is a wage-hour concept that employers must understand to calculate overtime properly. Failing to calculate correctly the regular rate can result in overpayment or underpayment of overtime pay. In the latter case, multitudes of...
by D. Gregory Valenza | | 03/23/2017
The Ninth Circuit decided that a “bonus” formula that deducted from the bonus calculation overtime paid on the base wage was an end-run around the appropriate calculation of the regular rate of pay. Therefore, the bonus violated the federal Fair Labor...
