As a business idea develops from a concept to start-up, there are a progression of steps a founder can take to help their Company’s overall success and sustainability. For example, in the initial stages of growth, the owner should make sure the Company is
Read More
Cal/OSHA passes the Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention regulation that took effect on July 1, 2018. This new regulation requires affected employers to perform an initial worksite evaluation by October 1, 2018. If you employ housekeepers you must now have: procedures to identify and evaluate
Read More
As the summer heat intensifies, so does your obligation to protect your employees from heat-related illnesses. If you have employees who work outdoors, you are required to provide them with recovery periods of 10 minutes at least once every four hours. A ‘recovery period’ is
Read More
New employment policies went into effect on July 1, 2018, that “limit or prohibit the use of any language” in the workplace are presumed to be unlawful. This means that English-only policies are presumed to violate California law unless: “(A) [t]he language restriction is justified by
Read More
Yesterday, the California Court of Appeal found that an employer is not liable for injuries to third-parties that are caused by an employee driving their personal outside the scope of his/her employment, so long as there is no benefit to the employer. Employers
Read More
On May 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court decided Epic Sys. Corp. v. Lewis, finding that employment arbitration agreements that contain class action waivers are enforceable. Prior to this case, best practices required an opt-out option for employees when contemplating waiver of rights
Read More
On May 8, 2018, the California Court of Appeal published its decision in Maldonado v. Epsilon Plastics, Inc. In this decision, the court found that claims for inaccurate wage statements, based on other wage and hour violations, did not give rise to a presumption of injury.
Read More
This week the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, which makes it more difficult for companies to classify workers as independent contractors. Under the Dynamex ruling, the Court adopted the “ABC” test in which a worker is
Read More
Last month, the California Supreme Court published Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp. of California, a decision that provides additional insight into overtime calculations for employees that receive bonuses. In true California fashion, the court favored employees by requiring employers to include bonuses as
Read More