by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
In the recent weeks there has been considerable controversy over employers seeking to require applicants to provide the passwords to their Facebook accounts or other social media sites as part of the application process and as a condition of hiring. The issue has...
by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
It is becoming increasingly difficult, according to many studies, for unemployed persons to find employment if they disclose that they are “unemployed”. As a result, legislation has recently been introduced on the state and federal level to make amendments to the law...
by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
California wage and hour laws provide that certain employees, such as executives, managers and administrative employees, are “exempt” and are not regulated by certain aspects of the Labor Code and the IWC Wage Orders, specifically in relation to overtime...
by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
For years it has been an acceptable practice for California employers to “round” up or down the recorded work time of their employees for payroll purposes, as long as the rounding practices followed the Labor Commissioner’s guidelines and did not serve as a method to...
by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
Employers with 50 or more employees are currently covered by both the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) and the federal Family and Medical Care Act (FMLA) which permits employees who have worked more than 1250 hours in the most recent 12 month period of time to take...
by Cynthia Elkins | Apr 20, 2012 | News
Courts are regularly asked to review arbitration agreements relating to employment claims and more and more often are finding them to be invalid for a variety of reasons. In a recent case, yet another court found an employer’s arbitration agreement invalid as to...
