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 […]
Beginning in 2009, Plaintiff Terri Brown filed an original notice of wage and hour violations with the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) of alleged Labor Code violations against her employer, Ralphs Grocery Company and its parent company, The Kroger Co., which was one of the conditions of filing a Private Attorneys General Action […]
While defending developers Westlake Villas, LLC and Meer Capital Partners, LLC (Westlake) during a prior construction defect action, Travelers, et al. paid out attorneys’ fees and costs which they were then forced to file this action as a means of recovering monies paid out. Based on alleged subrogation or substitution to the rights of its […]