Podcast: California Employment News - Properly Listing Employer Information on Wage Statements (Part 3)
California Employment News: Properly Listing Employer Information on Wage Statements (Part 3)
Podcast: California Employment News - How to Account for Premium Pay on Wage Statements (Part 2)
California Employment News: Premium Pay Constitutes Wages
Case In Point: Recent Developments in Employment Law
This is the second of a three-part series addressing the changes in California’s Private Attorneys General Act. Below, we discuss an employer’s opportunity to cure alleged PAGA violations...more
This spring, California employers received two rare and substantial victories, alleviating some of the burden caused by frequent and costly wage and hour claims that plague California businesses. In 2023 alone, California’s...more
California's Private Attorneys General Act, better known as PAGA, has been in effect since 2004. PAGA allows employees to sue their employer on behalf of the state for virtually any claimed California Labor Code violation for...more
Last week, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 2288 and Senate Bill (SB) 92, which amended California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Since 2004, PAGA has created challenges for California employers because it...more
Assembly Bill 2288 and Senate Bill 92 were introduced on 21 June 2024, both of which proposed significant reforms to California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). On 1 July 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed...more
California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) has undergone substantial, and arguably overdue, reform by way of dual legislative measures - Assembly Bill 2288 and Senate Bill 92. PAGA 2.0 will apply to PAGA civil...more
On June 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2288, thereby reforming PAGA and amending Labor Code Section 2699. Passed in 2004, PAGA authorizes aggrieved employees to file lawsuits to recover civil...more
On July 1, 2024, Governor Newsom signed legislation that makes significant changes to California's notorious Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) to become effective immediately as an urgency measure. While the new...more
On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two legislative bills (AB 2288, amending Labor Code Section 2699; and SB 92, amending Section 2699.3) into law, effective July 1, 2024. The new law significantly...more
The comprehensive reform of California’s Private Attorneys General Act is now the law. The PAGA reform (AB 2288 and SB 92) was a result of an agreement approved by Governor Newsom that removed the vote on the repeal of PAGA...more
On July 1, 2024 Governor Newsom signed SB-92 and AB-2288 into law, which instituted sweeping reforms to California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”). PAGA was passed 20 years ago to provide a private mechanism for...more
On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills, Senate Bill 92 and Assembly Bill 2288, that amend the state’s Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which deputizes private parties to enforce the...more
In a major development for employers who do business there, California has passed legislation to reform its Private Attorneys General Act as part of a deal that will lead to the withdrawal of a November 2024 ballot initiative...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that an agreement to reform the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) had been reached by legislative leadership, labor organizations, and business groups. Prompted...more
When is an employer’s violation of providing employees with wage statements knowing and intentional, triggering financial penalties? Taking its second look at the case, the California Supreme Court ruled that an...more
In a favorable ruling for employers defending against wage statement compliance claims, the California Supreme Court in Naranjo v. Spectrum Services Inc. (Naranjo) settled an age-old dispute by determining that an employer...more
Under California Labor Code section 226, an employer, semimonthly or at the time of each payment of wages, must furnish employees an “accurate itemized statement in writing” reflecting, at least, nine specifically delineated...more
Last summer, we reported here the California Supreme Court ruling that premium payments owed under Labor Code section 226.7 for meal and rest break violations constitute “wages.” The Naranjo et al. v. Spectrum Sec. Servs.,...more
Properly listing employer information on wage statements might seem like a no-brainer, but it can get tricky. Shauna Correia and Rachel Davey break down the details in this episode of California Employment News (podcast). ...more
Properly listing employer information on wage statements might seem like a no-brainer, but it can get tricky. Shauna Correia and Rachel Davey break down the details in this episode of California Employment News. Part three...more
California employers are subject to meal and rest break premiums. Shauna Correia and Rachel Davey help explain what premium payments are, and how employers are required to account for them on wage statements, in this part 2...more
Two recent developments in equal pay laws—salary range disclosure and pay data reporting—are forcing employers in certain jurisdictions to review their pay practices and begin addressing pay equity if they are not doing so...more
Under federal and California law, employers must include most bonuses and incentives in the “regular rate” for paying overtime, as well as meal and rest period premium pay. Often, such as with a monthly or quarterly bonus, an...more
On May 23, 2022, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Naranjo v. Spectrum Sec. Servs. Inc. (Naranjo), holding that meal and rest break premiums (also known as extra pay or premium pay) constitute “wages” that:...more
The California Supreme Court, on May 23, 2022, issued a seminal opinion in Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc., which found that employees can recover penalties for failure to timely pay wages at termination and...more