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Short Takes: Overtime on Bonuses
Could I get some clarification on whether we owe overtime on predetermined bonuses? We pay a production bonus to our assembly workers when they hit certain production levels. The bonus is not a great amount of money, but it does seem to keep production levels up. Now we’ve heard that we should somehow be paying […]
News Notes: Electronics Retailer Settles Overtime Misclassification Lawsuit
Video game retailer Electronics Boutique of America has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles court charging the company misclassified managers in the retailer’s California stores as exempt from overtime. The lawsuit charged that managers regularly worked overtime without additional pay and spent more than 50 percent of their […]
News Notes: Clothing Retailer Settles Wage Claims
Clothing retailer The Wet Seal Inc. has agreed to shell out up to $1.3 million to settle a dispute with as many as 500 California store managers who claimed they were improperly classified as exempt from overtime pay because they performed primarily nonexempt work, such as stocking and helping customers. In a separate development, The […]
Insurance: Governor Signs Bill Prohibiting Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Policies on Workers
Gov. Davis has signed a law barring employers from taking out corporate-owned life insurance policies on employees, with some exceptions. The law does not affect the validity of employer-purchased life insurance that is provided as an employee benefit.
Parental Rights In The Workplace: You Now Must Provide Accommodations For Nursing Mothers
All employers, including state and local government agencies, will have to accommodate nursing mothers’ needs at work under a new law Gov. Davis has signed. A.B. 1025 takes effect Jan. 1, 2002. Meeting Breastfeeding Workers’ Needs Under this new measure, you must provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee who desires […]
News Notes: Classification Mistakes Prove Costly For Employers
Several large employers have recently run into expensive problems over the practice of handing out assistant manager titles, allegedly to avoid paying overtime to employees who perform largely the same work as nonexempt personnel. Workers are calling such tactics unfair labor practices and are suing for back overtime pay and damages. Two such cases are […]
Overtime Compensation: Employer Dodges Claim For Back Pay; Defensive Steps To Take Now
Defending against an employee’s claim for overtime that you didn’t even know they had worked can be frustrating and expensive. And if you lose, you could be on the hook for up to three years of back overtime plus penalties. We’ll review a recent case involving a Fresno employer who managed to win this type […]
More Overtime Changes Coming: Update On IWC Wage Order Hearings
Come July, you can expect several changes in the wage and hour regulations. That’s because the new daily overtime law gives the California Industrial Welfare Commission until July 2000 to review the current overtime rules and come up with new regulations and wage orders. At stake are modifications to a variety of wage and hour […]
Overtime Claims: Overtime Misclassification Class-Action Suits Not Letting Up–Who’s The Latest Target; Plus A 6-Point Compliance Checklist
The nation’s largest privately held car rental company is the newest casualty in a growing list of high pro- file employers sued for misclassifying workers as managers. Management assistants for Enterprise Rent-A-Car recently filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they’re owed unpaid overtime because they were improperly treated as managerial employees exempt from the overtime laws.Claims […]