Last week, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction preventing the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing its new overtime rules that were scheduled to go into effect on December 1, 2016. Among other things, these new overtime rules would have required employers to pay “exempt” employees at least $47,476/year beginning on December… Read More
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California Minimum Wage Increases to $10.50 on January 1, 2017
For businesses with more than 25 employees, the state’s minimum wage will increase from $10.00/hour to $10.50/hour starting on January 1, 2017. [Note: Employers in San Francisco and Oakland (and many other municipalities), however, this new state minimum wage is still lower than the local minimum wage required by municipal law. For example, the San Francisco… Read More
U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Overtime Regulations
Determining when an employee gets overtime — and when an employee can be considered “exempt” from overtime — is tricky business in California. Penalties can be extraordinarily severe for an employer who improperly classifies a worker as “exempt.” In general, under current California law, every employee who works over 8 hours in a day or… Read More
Store Manager Loses Exempt Status by Performing Nonexempt Duties
On May 23, 2013, the California Court of Appeal ruled in Heyen v. Safeway that a store manager lost her exempt status by simultaneously performing exempt and nonexempt duties. The plaintiff in this case, Linda Heyen, worked for Safeway as an Assistant Store Manager. Safeway classified Ms. Heyen as an “exempt” executive employee, which made… Read More
