The state of California’s current minimum wage is $15.00 per hour for employers that have 26 or more employees and $14.00 per hour for employers that have fewer than 26 employees. However, California cities and counties routinely implement their own minimum wage requirements and five such localities—Pasadena, Los Angeles County, the City of Los Angeles, Emeryville, and San Francisco—will be increasing their minimum wage rates, effective July 1, 2022
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California Local Minimum Wage Increases July 1, 2021
By Jill L. Ripke on
Posted in Class and Collective Actions
California’s state minimum wage increased on January 1, 2021 but some California localities have minimum wage ordinances which are higher than the state minimum wage. In addition, some California localities have updates to their minimum wage rates as of July 1, 2021 which include:…
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While Rounding Time Entries Can Be Permissible for Working Hours, the California Supreme Court Has Now Held It Is Not Permissible for Break Time
Posted in Timekeeping
California law generally requires that employers provide nonexempt employees an uninterrupted, nonworking 30-minute meal period to begin before the end of the fifth hour of work. In a case of first impression, Donahue v. AMN Services, LLC, ___ P.3d ___, 2021 WL 728871 (Cal. 2021) analyzed whether an otherwise-permissible time-rounding system could be used…
The Ninth Circuit Clarifies When California Law Applies to Employees With Remote Workplaces
Posted in Employment Litigation
In Bernstein v. Virgin America, Inc., ___ F.3d ___, 2021 WL 686281 (9th Cir. 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the application of California wage-and-hour laws to employees who worked both within and outside of the state.
Prior case law established that California’s wage-and-hour laws apply to non-California residents…
California’s Supreme Court Confirms the Retroactivity of the ABC Test Established in the 2018 Dynamex Decision
On January 14, 2021, the California Supreme Court decided Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc. The decision holds that the ABC test used to determine independent contractor versus employee status for purposes of California’s Wage Orders, announced in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903, applies retroactively. Read the full update