Rest and Meal Break, Minimum Wage, Compliance

Navigating Meal Period Compliance: Key Insights From Recent Washington Court Ruling for Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/7/2024

An appellate court in Washington state recently held a hospital liable to pay employees who worked through meal period breaks for their time worked plus compensation for an additional break as a penalty, highlighting...more

Uber Employee Classification Class Action Could Impact All Employers

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 9/14/2015

From Payroll Taxes to Sick Leave Laws … Federal Ruling Could Be Game Changer for Sharing Economy - A federal judge’s decision last week to certify a class of California Uber drivers in their lawsuit claiming Uber has...more

Beware State Wage and Hour Laws: Washington Supreme Court Upends Piece Work Calculations

Franczek P.C. on 8/12/2015

Whenever I discuss federal law here on the blog, I usually add a disclaimer that reminds employers to check state and local laws before proceeding. With the proliferation of minimum wage increases, minding state and local...more

Happy 2014 – Gear Up For New Wage And Hour Laws

Fisher Phillips on 1/9/2014

As the new year begins, California employers, already weary from added wage and hour laws and regulations enacted over the past several years, have yet more to comply with. Here are the highlights....more

2014 Update for California Employers

Allen Matkins on 1/7/2014

While 2013 was marked by some novel and interesting judicial and administrative decisions, including Quicken Loans (in which the National Labor Relations Board invalidated certain common employee handbook policies), Vance v....more

How Franchise Systems Can Minimize Risks of Labor Violations

Maynard Nexsen on 7/18/2013

No one enjoys being the center of attention when that attention is coming from federal regulators. Yet that’s where franchise systems have found themselves of late – especially in the hospitality sector, which accounts for a...more