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New York Department of Labor Recommends Elimination of the Tip Credit for "Miscellaneous" Industries

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A proposed amendment to New York State regulations would eliminate the “tip credit” for a wide variety of workers....more

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Harrison M. Thorne Publishes "Retroactive Application of Dynamex," in The Los Angeles Lawyer, March 2019, Volume 42, No. 1

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FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS, California businesses have used the Borello test (so named after S.G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations) to determine whether workers should be classified as employees or...more

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California Employers Reminded that Failure to Provide "Suitable Seating" Could Prove Costly

Since 2009, many large retailers in California have been sued for failing to provide “suitable seating” in accordance with the state’s wage orders. Some of those employers have recently been forced to pay significant...more

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California Supreme Court Tells Employers to Sit a Spell While Courts Review Individual Factors for Suitable Seating

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“Shut the door. Have a seat.” The phrase immediately conjures emotions from the recipient. Most likely, life-changing (typically bad) news is about to be imparted. For Mad Men fans, it harkens to the third-season finale when...more

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Sitting on the Job: When California Employers Must Provide Seats

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Employees are entitled to sit at work when the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats. On April 4, 2016, the California Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Justice Carol A. Corrigan, clarified...more

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Question #275: Can We Take A Stand On Employees Sitting?

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Question: Some of our retail company’s employees in California are demanding chairs to sit in while they work. Management thinks it appears unprofessional to have workers sitting, but I hear the employees might have a legal...more

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