This post talks about California’s new COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave available to eligible employees from January 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021.
This post discusses some potentially unlawful aspects of employers requiring employees to take an unapproved COVID-19 vaccine which the FDA has only provided an emergency use authorization (“EUA”) for.
California employers have to give workers cool water, shade, and rest breaks when it gets hot. Workers who complain about unsafe heat cannot legally be fired for it.
California's wage orders list a short set of situations where reporting time pay is not owed. They are narrower than most workers expect, and ordinary business problems are not on the list.
If your employer tells you to come in and then sends you home early, California's reporting time pay rule may require the company to pay you for half your scheduled day — at least two hours and at most four.
A customer harasses you at work. You tell your manager. Nothing changes. Many workers assume there is nothing they can do, because the harasser does not work for the company. California law says otherwise.
You told your boss you thought the company was breaking the law. It turned out you were wrong, and then you were fired. In California, being wrong does not mean you lose your protection.
California's Labor Commissioner has issued about $2 million in wage judgments against a San Diego County care home operator. Live-in caregivers say they worked 20-hour days, six days a week, for a flat daily rate instead of hourly pay.
California's minimum wage goes up to $17.40 an hour in 2027. The same change raises the salary line for overtime exemption to $72,384 a year — and neither a salary nor a job title takes away your right to overtime.
A California city agreed to pay $230,000 to a worker who says she reported sexual harassment, got written up in response, and was then turned down for a disability schedule change other workers received.
The California Labor Commissioner ordered J BBQ in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California to pay over $680,000 in unpaid wages and penalties after investigators found the restaurant denied 48 workers proper wages, breaks, and accurate paystubs.
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC and three janitorial labor contractors were reportedly ordered to pay over $2 million in unpaid wages and penalty for illegally misclassifying 155 Half Moon Bay, California janitors as independent contractors and denying them basic workplace protections.