On July 27, 2021, the Department of Industrial Relations issued a news release regarding a citation of $447,836 issued by the California Labor Commissioner against three Southern California El Super Grocery Stores for not providing COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave (“SPSL”). El
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Today, July 27, 2021, the Center for Disease Control revised their mask guidance in light of the Delta variant, which continues to spread across the country. While we were hoping that the move to unmasking would be more permanent, we did advise
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Now that California has re-opened its economy, many employers are facing the reality of staffing shortages that are affecting a wide range of sectors. While there are significant job opportunities (especially in the leisure and hospitality industries), with the continuation of high
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In California, an employer cannot have a non-exempt employee work for a period of more than five hours without providing an unpaid, off-duty meal period of at least thirty minutes and cannot have an employee work for a period of more than
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Although the State of California has aligned itself with CDC recommendations surrounding face mask requirements, Los Angeles County is the first county since California’s Re-Opening to issue an updated face mask mandate due to the recent increase in the transmission of Covid-19.
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Recently, former gardening and maintenance crew workers have filed suit against celebrity Kim Kardashian alleging various California wage and hour violations. The Plaintiffs claim that the superstar owes them for unpaid labor and overtime hours spent working on her $60 million Los
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Recently, Walmart appealed a judgment, for violations of California’s wage statement and meal break laws, to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. The judgment appealed was for $102 million dollars – comprised of $48 million in statutory damages and $52 million in
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While many cities across California increase their minimum wage requirements on January 1 of each year, there are several cities that do not implement the minimum wage increase until July 1. (We previously wrote about the January 1 minimum wage increase.) If
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Recently, in Bruni v. The Edwards Thomas Hospitality Corporation (Bruni), employers received a rare win. The California Court of Appeal determined that a wrongful discharge claim cannot be based upon an alleged violation of a municipal ordinance (a municipal ordinance is a
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Last night, June 17, 2021, the Cal-OSHA Standards Board voted to adopt the Revised Covid-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”). These new ETS revisions are a departure from the previously proposed, and later withdrawn revisions, that we wrote about previously (Updates to Cal-OSHA
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