Archive of Wage-and-Hour
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Employers and Employees Win with Brinker: California Supreme Court Decision Brings Favorable Certainty Regarding California’s Meal and Rest Period Standards
Posted on April 19, 2012 by Doug Riegelhuth in Legal, News in General, Wage-and-Hour
As you may recall, one of my previous blog posts addressed the uncertainty surrounding California’s meal and rest period standards. You might also recall that I mentioned in that same blog post that the California Supreme Court granted review of...
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When Employees Work Out of State: Sullivan v. Oracle Corporation
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Doug Riegelhuth in Legal, Wage-and-Hour
By Doug Riegelhuth, TriNet attorney Remember the case Sullivan v. Oracle Corporation? We referenced it in the first of this series of wage-and-hour blog posts. At the time, the big news out of the Sullivan case was...
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The Latest Salvo in the Charge against Misclassification of Employees as Contractors
Posted on November 28, 2011 by Doug Riegelhuth in Legal, Wage-and-Hour
By Doug Riegelhuth, TriNet attorney One of the many employment-related bills signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown a few weeks ago is Senate Bill 459, the latest in the essentially nation-wide effort to address the misclassification of...
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Strategies for Addressing the Uncertainty Regarding California’s Meal and Rest Period Standards
Posted on October 10, 2011 by Doug Riegelhuth in Legal, Wage-and-Hour
By Doug Riegelhuth, TriNet attorney Do you employ “non-exempt” California employees? If so, do you have a written policy requiring that meal periods, when required to be made available, be scheduled to start before the sixth hour of work? If not,...
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The Vacation Trap: Are Sabbaticals Included?
Posted on September 6, 2011 by Doug Riegelhuth in Legal, Wage-and-Hour
By Doug Riegelhuth, TriNet attorney Last month we kicked off a series of blog posts focused on the difficult issues that wage-and-hour laws often present. After that post, as if on cue, the California Court of Appeal issued a...
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