Podcast: California Employment News - Time to Do Away With Rounding Policies
California Employment News: Time to Do Away With Rounding Policies
Case In Point: Recent Developments in Employment Law
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Whistleblower Watch is a comprehensive source for all False Claims Act (FCA) news and information. Every quarter, Cozen O’Connor will provide in-house counsel and compliance professionals with a summary of the most notable...more
I have blogged about these automatic deduction cases, but they nevertheless keep popping up with disturbing regularity. In another example of this phenomenon, employees have sued a Michigan healthcare employer, alleging...more
The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has released a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) guiding employers on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in human resources activities. The FAB focuses on how the use...more
Recently, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) that provides guidance for employers on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the Fair Labor...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has published a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) on the application of federal labor standards to employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated...more
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
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
Under the FLSA, employees must meet the above salary thresholds and the duties tests for executive, administrative, or professional employees for the employees to be exempt from the FLSA’s overtime pay requirements. Employees...more
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
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
If you answered no, then you’d better have the records needed to prove the number of overtime hours worked by your employees and the rates paid for them. If you don’t have the records, then borrowing a rhyme from the legal...more
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
The new salary threshold for exempt employees is coming soon. The current minimum level is $35,568 per year ($684 per week) and the proposal is to increase it to $55,068 per year ($1059 per week). The salary level for...more
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
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
The FLSA regulations on training time are very specific and, often, hard for an employer to comply with. There are four conditions precedent for such time to be non-compensable and they must all be satisfied or else the time...more
Key Takeaways - Employers who have employees working overnight shifts when daylight saving time ends and standard time begins must pay these employees an additional hour. Employers also should review the total hours these...more
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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