Wage & Hour Case Law Alerts

By Alma Piñan The California Supreme Court has issued yet another troubling ruling for California employers by holding that meal and rest break premiums are “wages,” which trigger waiting-time [...]

By Tom Geidt As always, the new year brought a flurry of new California employment laws that employers should know about.  We summarize the key enactments below.  Each of these took effect on [...]

By Tom Geidt The California Supreme Court has dealt another blow to California employers by holding that employers are required to use the more complicated FLSA-type “regular rate” method of [...]

By Tom Geidt The California Supreme Court has issued a very important but troubling ruling on the subject of meal breaks, one that will affect all California employers. Its unanimous decision in [...]

By Tom Geidt In a landmark decision interpreting California wage and hour law, the California Supreme Court unanimously held that employers in California cannot refrain from paying employees for [...]

By Tom Geidt In a very important and troubling decision for California employers, the state Supreme Court has set down new rules on how employers must calculate overtime for certain bonuses and [...]

By Jen Svanfeldt and Amanda Bolliger On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued an extremely important decision for all businesses in California that classify any of their workers as [...]

By Tom Geidt This week the California Supreme Court clarified the Labor Code’s confusing statutes granting employees “one day’s rest in seven.” In Mendoza v. Nordstrom, Inc., Case No. S224611, [...]

By Yewleh Chee and Tom Geidt In Vaquero v. Stoneledge Furniture LLC, 9 Cal. App. 5th 98 (2017), a California court of appeal recently held for the first time that employers in California must [...]

By Tom Geidt In a rather stunning development, a federal judge in Texas has issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from implementing its new overtime rule [...]