In This Issue:

- Appeals Court To Employee: “You’re Kidding Us, Right?” By Michael J. Rossiter (Irvine)

California’s Sixth Appellate District recently issued a decision upholding an employer’s right to modify the compensation terms of an at-will employment agreement where the employee never made a written protest to the modification and the employee continued to accept the modified compensation offered. Foust v. San Jose Construction Company, Inc....

- How Do You Recapture Debt From An Employee’s Final Paycheck? Very Carefully. By John Skousen (Irvine)

Employers continue to be challenged with claims from terminated employees who received payroll deductions for debts they owed the employer. In a recent case employees brought a collective action in a California federal court seeking remedies for violations of California law and the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for deductions taken from their final pay checks for debt balances. The federal court ruled in favor of the company on all claims. Ward v. Costco Wholesale Corporation...