California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1867 on September 9, requiring private employers with 500 or more employees nationwide to provide California employees with paid sick leave for coronavirus...more
Assembly Bill 5, signed into law on September 18, generally codifies Dynamex and establishes difficult standards for classifying workers as independent contractors. Employers should review their independent contractor...more
The California Court of Appeal recently held that if an employer requires an employee to call in two hours before the start of a scheduled shift to find out if the employee will be required to work the shift, and the employee...more
In Troester v. Starbucks Corp., the California Supreme Court held that the Fair Labor Standards Act’s de minimis doctrine does not apply to wage claims under California law. However, the court left open the question of...more
The California Supreme Court holds that California wage and hour laws prohibit on-duty and on-call rest breaks.
On December 22, 2016, the California Supreme Court ruled that California “employers must relieve their...more