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Wage and Hour Policies Amid Rising PAGA Filings

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At Meyers Nave, we prioritize assisting our clients in establishing and maintaining wage and hour policies that comply with legal standards. This includes implementing effective systems and processes to ensure all levels of...more

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Assessing Payroll Rounding Policies After Wage Hour Class Action Suit

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A recent concern in the healthcare sector, specifically hospitals, is a large class action wage hour claim in the state of Washington, Bennett v. Providence Health & Services. In this instance, a review of the order granting...more

Littler

Belgian Courts Are Confronted with Their Jurisdictional Limitations When Presiding over Cases Involving an Employer’s Obligation...

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In its landmark ruling on May 14, 2019, the European Court of Justice held that the European Working Time Directive (Directive 2003/88) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Article 31) is opposed to...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Genetic Information Privacy Act: Recent Surge in Class Action Lawsuits Against Illinois Employers

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Over the last decade, Illinois employers have been faced with a rash of class action lawsuits under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), causing many employers to pay hefty sums and alter their biometric timekeeping...more

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California Supreme Court Holds that Employees Must Be Paid for Time Driving Through and To Security Checkpoints

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California employers who require employees to pass through a security checkpoint or swipe a security badge before exiting their worksites but after clocking out could potentially face significant liability for violating...more

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Rounding Time Is No Longer a Safe Bet in Oregon and Washington

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) mandates that employers compensate employees for each hour worked. Nonetheless, the Department of Labor guidance permits rounding of employee time punches so long as, among other things,...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Biometric Screening Can Result in ADA, Title VII Claims

An increasing number of employers are expressing interest in using biometric technology in the workplace. For example, a company concerned that employees are clocking one another in and out of work could implement retinal...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Second Circuit Addresses Off-The-Clock Work

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In Perry et al. v. City of New York, the Second Circuit upheld a large jury verdict in favor of a collective of workers regarding off-the-clock work. In doing so, the Court reaffirmed the principle that employers will...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Clocking In: What Employers Need to Watch for in Recent Court Decision on Unpaid Working Time

For decades, the Department of Labor (DOL) has recognized the impracticability of requiring Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) nonexempt employees to clock in exactly at the beginning of their scheduled shifts. In most...more

Payne & Fears

Key California Employment Law Case Summaries: July 2023

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Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks  Inc., 14 Cal. 4th 993 (2023)... Adolph v. Uber Technologies Inc., 14 Cal. 5th 1104 (2023)... Woodworth v. Loma Linda University Medical Center, No. E072704, 2023 WL 4701976 (Cal. Ct. App. July...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Is it Time to Rethink Your Time-Rounding Practice?

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For decades, many employers have rounded non-exempt employees’ work time when calculating their compensation.  Maybe they have rounded employee work time to the nearest 10 minutes, maybe to the nearest quarter hour, but they...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

[Webinar] Wage & Hour Legal Update And Best Practices for California Employers - August 22nd, 10:00 am - 11:15 am PT

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CDF invites you to attend a complimentary one-hour and 15-minute webinar of valuable insights and updates on California wage and hour laws, as well as essential best practices for employers to ensure compliance and minimize...more

Fisher Phillips

Is This the End of Employee Timecard Rounding in California? 3 Steps for Employers to Take After Recent Ruling

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The California Court of Appeal issued a blow to employers this week by taking yet another step toward eliminating their ability to round employee time punches. Although the California Supreme Court will ultimately weigh in,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Home Depot Files Opening Brief in California Supreme Court Case Set to Determine Validity of Time Clock Rounding

As we wrote about previously here, in October 2022, the Sixth District of the California Court of Appeal in Camp v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 84 Cal.App.5th 638 (2022), ignored a decade of precedent and found Home Depot’s...more

Littler

British Columbia Tribunal Confirms Time Theft Proven by Time-Tracking Software May Justify Employment Termination for Cause

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The decision of the British Columbia, Canada Civil Resolution Tribunal (Tribunal) in Besse v. Reach CPA Inc., 2023 BCCRT 27 is especially relevant now that remote work has become common. The Tribunal found the employer had...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Fristlose Kündigung wegen Kaffepause – Arbeitszeitbetrug als schwerwiegende Pflichtverletzung

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Nachdem die Pflicht zur Arbeitszeiterfassung bestimmt worden ist, werden sich Arbeitgeber zukünftig womöglich vermehrt dem Problem des Arbeitszeitbetrugs und des Missbrauchs von Zeiterfassungssystemen stellen müssen. Mit...more

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Neues zur Arbeitszeiterfassung – Referentenentwurf zur Änderung des Arbeitszeitgesetzes

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Seit dem 18. April 2022 liegt nun der lang erwartete (Referenten-)Entwurf zur Änderung des Arbeitszeitgesetzes und zur Regelung der Arbeitszeiterfassung vor („RefE-ArbZG“). Damit reagiert das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und...more

Hogan Lovells

Gesetzentwurf zur Arbeitszeiterfassung – Jetzt wird es ernst!

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Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) hatte für das erste Quartal einen Gesetzentwurf zur Umsetzung der Vorgaben des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) und des Bundesarbeitsgerichts (BAG) zur Arbeitszeiterfassung...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

“BIPA Win For Union Employers:  Union Employees’ BIPA Claims Are Preempted”

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 23, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the appellate court’s decision in Walton v. Roosevelt University, ruling that the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”) preempts the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Time to Update Your Policies: Illinois Passes Sweeping Paid Leave Legislation

Recently, Illinois became the third state to pass a mandatory paid time off law called the “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” (the “Act”), which grants employees a minimum of 40 hours of paid time off per year for any reason....more

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Untreue bei zu hoher Vergütung von Betriebsräten?BGH, Urteil 10.01.2023 – 6 StR 133/22

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Der BGH hat am 10. Januar 2023 die erstinstanzlichen Freisprüche vier früherer VW-Manager wegen des Vorwurfs der Untreue aufgehoben. Die schriftliche Urteilsbegründung war mit großer Spannung erwartet worden. Nun ist sie da....more

Miller Nash LLP

As Time Goes by…Pay Practices Which May Be a Surprising Risk for Employers—Part 2

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In Part 2 of our blog series highlighting some of the risks for employers when pay and time practices don’t comport with wage and hour laws, the case details and key takeaways below should provide West Coast employers...more

Perkins Coie

Wage and Hour Compliance: Meal and Rest Breaks

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This blog series addresses common employment-related issues for cannabis industry professionals. This post addresses meal and rest break requirements manufacturers and retailers of cannabis products should consider to...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

Oregon Supreme Court Rules That Oregon Law Follows Federal Definition of “Work Time.”

In a recent decision titled Buero v. Amazon.com Services, Inc.­­, 370 Or. 502 (2022),  the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s wage and hour law uses the same definition of “work time” as the federal Fair Labor Standards...more

Perkins Coie

New Series: Employment Law and the Cannabis Industry

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This blog series addresses common employment-related issues for cannabis industry professionals. This first post addresses timekeeping considerations for manufacturers and retailers of cannabis products to ensure compliance...more

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