With the holiday season fast approaching, there’s no time like the present to familiarize yourself with the obligations you as an employer face under California’s employment laws. This article will cover topics ranging from holiday season employer practices, vacation accrual requirements, and other related issues you are likely to encounter as an employer during the […]
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What are the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the California Labor Code? The FLSA is a set of federal wage and hour laws that establish things such as minimum wage, overtime regulations, and related employee-employer standards. Similarly, the Labor Code sets out California specific wage and hour laws – laws that generally mirror the […]
In terms of managing employee conduct, a clearly defined and consistent discipline program is truly beneficial to both the employer and employee alike. As a Southern California employer, installing systematic and consistent disciplinary procedures provides you with a road map that will enable you to correct areas in need of improvement, while also providing your […]
What is the Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”)? Passed into law in 2004, PAGA is a mechanism through which aggrieved employees may sue their current or former employer—on behalf of themselves, other employees, and the State of California—to recover civil penalties for various California Labor Code violations. As the name implies, PAGA enables an aggrieved […]
As with COVID-19, there has been a lot of confusion and a lot of questions in regards to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that goes into effect on April 1, 2020 and applies to leave taken between April 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020. It applies to businesses that have less than 500 employees, […]
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SKILLED CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER DEFENSE ATTORNEY MANDEEP RUPAL SHARES TIPS FOR HOW TO AVOID WRONGFUL TERMINATION CLAIMS If you’ve ever had employees, you must have come across a situation where you had to terminate someone’s employment. Most employers struggle with terminating employees. Often, employers are worried about the terminated employee coming after them with a made […]
There will be times when the decision of the hearing officer will not be what you had wanted. You may choose to appear the decision. There are strict time limits on when this can be done and will be stipulated on the ODA (Order, Decision or Award) which will be served on both parties within […]
One of my clients received a letter from a lawyer who represents one of his employees. The letter requested that my client, the employer, send all of his employees records to the employee’s lawyer. This employee has worked for my client for over 10 years. My client reached out to me and asked me how […]
The Labor Commissioner hearing is considered to be more formal than the claim conference, so while it is recorded by an audio recorder, it is also held under oath. The hearing officer, previously assigned by the Labor Commissioner Office, will use any testimony given to make an order that either grants or denies a reward […]
At this point in the process, one of two things should have already happened since the wage claim was filed by your employee. Either the Deputy Commissioner has asked that both parties to the action attend a Labor Commissioner Hearing. Or a claims conference was found to not be sufficient enough to resolve the claim. […]