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Prepare to Spring Forward
On March 10, move your clocks forward an hour! Get ready for another round of . . . daylight saving time (DST)! This year, clocks will move forward an hour on Sunday, March 10. On Monday, employers and...
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How Scheduling Meetings in Advance Affects Reporting Time Pay in California
Can I pay my employees for the actual length of the meeting? The employees of my store regularly work Monday through Friday. Every third Saturday of the month, I hold a staff meeting for all of my...
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Demystifying ‘Regular Rate’ of Pay, Overtime
Determining an employee’s regular rate of pay can be confusing. How does the regular rate work? Once I calculate the regular rate, does it change the employee’s hourly rate? Do I have to calculate a...
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U.S. DOL Proposes Regular Rate, Joint-Employer Regulations
Two new DOL-proposed rules will affect employers. In the last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has proposed two new rules affecting different employer regulation areas,...
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Comment Period Extended for DOL Regular Rate, Joint-Employer Rules
Don’t miss these upcoming deadlines to comment on DOL-proposed rules! The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has extended the comment period for two proposed rules – the regular rate rule and the...
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General Contractor Held Responsible for Subcontractor Wage Theft Violations
Failing to timely pay an employee who quits or is terminated is very expensive for employers. The Labor Commissioner’s Office issued citations totaling almost $600,000 in unpaid wages and penalties to...
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Calculating Nondiscretionary Bonuses in Regular Rate of Pay
Time to break out the calculator! The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued an opinion letter addressing the calculation of quarterly and annual nondiscretionary bonuses as part of the regular...
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Ninth Circuit Rejects Nike’s De Minimis Argument for Security Screenings
Whether certain security checks are compensable remains an open question. Even if an off-the-clock task, such as an exit inspection, is less than a minute, the de minimis principle likely does not...
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Permissible Payroll Rounding Practices
Employers who engage in rounding practices should carefully examine their policies and practices to ensure they’re fair and neutral. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued an opinion letter...
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What Employers Should Know About Wage Garnishment
An order to garnish an employee’s wages is not a piece of mail employers should ignore. In this episode of The Workplace, CalChamber Executive Vice President and General Counsel Erika Frank is joined...
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Franchisors Not Liable for Franchisee’s Labor Violations, Ninth Circuit Rules
Franchisor-provided POS equipment was one issue in the lawsuit. Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important wage and hour decision related to joint employment, particularly for...
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Social Security Announces 2020 Taxable Wage Base
The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax rate remains unchanged. The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced that the Social Security taxable wage base for 2020 will increase...
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Canceling a Shift and Reporting Time Pay
Some cities and counties have their own requirements for short notice changes to employee schedules. How much notice must I give my employees that I’m canceling a shift in order to avoid paying...
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Don’t forget to ‘Fall Back’ on Sunday!
Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends on Sunday, November 3. Although summer was officially over in September, our longer evenings come to an end this Sunday, November 3, when Daylight Saving Time (DST)...
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New 2020 Exempt Classification Rates
Computer professionals must meet all legal requirements to be considered exempt. California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced rate changes for the computer software employee...
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Examine Wage Practices: U.S. DOL Recovers Record Amount of Back Wages
For FY 2019, the DOL recovered an average of $883,000 per day in back wages. In fiscal year (FY) 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recovered a record $322 million in wages for workers, up from...
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Contracting for Labor? Employers Cited for Subcontractor’s $1.6 Million in...
California employers don’t need to have prior knowledge of wage and hour violations to be held liable for a subcontractor’s wage theft. The Labor Commissioner recently fined two California grocers and...
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New DOL-Issued Final Rule Updates ‘Regular Rate’ of Pay
New regular rate rule provides helpful clarification for employment perks and benefits. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced a final rule that updates regulations governing the...
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2020 IRS Mileage Rates
The IRS didn’t release the 2020 mileage rates until the last day of 2019. On December 31, 2019 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finally issued the 2020 optional standard mileage rates used to...
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New Form W-4, Tax Withholding Method
The IRS urges everyone to see if they need to adjust their withholding by using the Tax Withholding Estimator to perform a Paycheck Checkup. In December 2019, the IRS released its new Form W-4,...
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