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Equal Pay: Massive Lawsuit Highlights Need for Smart Pay Practices; An 8-Point Audit Checklist to Keep You In Compliance With Equal Pay Laws

By Jennifer Carsen Aug 1, 2004 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

A lawsuit charging Wal-Mart with discrimination against 1.6 million female employees has been certified as a class action by a federal district court judge in San Francisco. A key allegation in the litigation—being called the largest civil rights action in United States history—is that Wal-Mart violated state and federal equal-pay laws by paying female employees […]

Wage And Hour: Ninth Circuit Examines When You Have To Pay Workers For Donning And Doffing Protective Gear

By Jennifer Carsen Mar 1, 2004 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

Production line employees at the IBP Inc. meat processing plant in Pasco, Washington, are required to be at their workstations as the first piece of meat comes down the line. Before taking their positions, the employees must prepare their work tools and change into protective gear, such as sanitary aprons, metalmesh leggings, Kevlar gloves, and […]

News Notes: Clothing Retailer Settles Wage Claims

By Jennifer Carsen Mar 1, 2004 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

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 […]

Legislation Special Report: Wage And Hour

By Jennifer Carsen Jan 1, 2004 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

Wage and Hour Appeals AB 223 makes it harder for employers to recover attorney’s fees and costs in connection with an employee’s appeal from a labor commissioner wage and hour ruling. If the court awards the employee a sum greater than zero in the appeal, the appeal is successful and the employer can’t recover its […]

News Notes: Ninth Circuit Says Alter-Ego Employees Jointly Liable for Unpaid Wages

By Jennifer Carsen Dec 1, 2003 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

According to a new Ninth Circuit ruling, a group of health care employees who worked more than 40 hours a week, with the time split between two employers, was eligible for overtime pay because the companies qualified as a single enterprise. The two companies, A-One Health Care and Alternative Rehabilitation, had substantially merged their operations […]

Wage and Hour: Paycheck Deductions to Compensate for Cash Shortage Found Illegal; When You Can and Can’t Dock Wages

By Jennifer Carsen Sep 1, 2003 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

At Earl Scheib Inc. of California, an automotive paint shop chain, most sales transactions are in cash, and only shop managers are authorized to handle cash. If there’s an unresolved discrepancy between the shop’s bank deposit records and cash transactions, the manager is asked to sign an “acknowledgment of reimbursement” agreeing to reimburse the company […]