When an employer fails to pay an employee at least the minimum wage for all hours worked, current California law allows the employee to sue the employer and collect the minimum wages owed plus an additional amount known as “liquidated damages” equal to the amount of minimum wages…
Governor Newsom formally concluded the 2024 legislative session by signing into law several new bills that greatly expand employee rights in California starting on January 1, 2025. Between now and then, California employers should review their existing policies to ensure compliance with these laws in the new year….
The new year is right around the corner, and with it comes a host of new and amended laws for California employers. As we blogged about previously, numerous California employment laws changed in 2020 – COVID-19-related AB 685, AB 1867 and SB 1159, expansions to California’s Family Rights…
If you do business in any of the cities below, be sure that as of July 1, 2019, you began paying any minimum wage employees at the current increased rates. If you use a payroll service, they likely notified you and took care of it. But if you…
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…
Today, the minimum wage for workers in the City & County of San Francisco goes up to $13.00 per hour, up from the previous $12.25 per hour. This contrasts with the state’s current minimum wage, which is $10.00 per hour. In addition to San Francisco, several other California…
California Governor Jerry Brown announced that a deal had been reached with the California legislature to gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022. This would give California the highest state-wide minimum wage in the country. Under the new law, the state minimum wage…
On Saturday, June 13, 2015, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed into law a measure that would gradually increase the city’s minimum wage to $15/hour. Under this new law, in July 2016 the minimum wage in Los Angeles will increase to $10.50. Each year thereafter, the minimum wage…
The California statewide minimum wage is currently $9.00 per hour. It will increase to $10.00 per hour on January 1, 2016 as a result of the passage of AB 10, which I blogged about here. But local jurisdictions are always free to set higher minimum wages, and that…
Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 10 (AB 10) which raises the state’s minimum wage to $9.00/hour on July 1, 2014 and then to $10.00/hour on January 1, 2016. Unless some other state raises its minimum wage in the interim, the Governor’s signing of AB 10…