by Cynthia Elkins | Dec 21, 2016 | News
An amendment to the Labor Code makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to request more or different documents than required under federal law: to verify that an individual is not an unauthorized immigrant, or to refuse to honor documents tendered that...
by Cynthia Elkins | Dec 13, 2016 | News
Due to the ever-increasing amount of litigation being filed over the “mis-classification” of an employee as exempt vs. non-exempt, it is critical to evaluate each job and determine the proper classification for compensation purposes. If an employee is mis-classified...
by Cynthia Elkins | Nov 16, 2016 | News
On November 14, 2016 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the new I-9 Form has been published. Below is information posted by the USCIS. The changes to the Form were designed to reduce errors and enhance form completion using a computer. To...
by Cynthia Elkins | Oct 19, 2016 | News
In mid August, the California Supreme Court agreed to hear a case filed against Starbucks Corp. to determine whether employees can bring wage-and-hour lawsuits over short periods of unpaid time; e.g. de minimis time. The lawsuit accuses Starbucks Corp. of not paying...
by Cynthia Elkins | Oct 19, 2016 | News
The question presented to the Court in this case is whether an arbitration provision in an employee handbook is legally enforceable. In the case before the Court, the employer had an employee handbook, as most employers have these days. Also very common, the handbook...
