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Wages
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Working: Now and Then
Workplace Sexual Harassment by Industry
EEOC data demonstrates a connection between sexual harassment and wages Genevieve Carlton, Ph.D Sexual harassment in the workplace remains a problem in every industry. From minimum wage workers to journalists…
California Employment Law Update
FLSA’s De Minimis Doctrine Does Not Apply To California “Off-The-Clock” Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Troester v. Starbucks Corp., 5 Cal. 5th 829 (2018) In this opinion, the California Supreme Court answered a legal question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth…
California Employment Law Update
$80.00 Error On Final Check Results In Six-Figure Judgment In Favor Of Employee
By Tony Oncidi
Nishiki v. Danko Meredith, APC, 25 Cal. App. 5th 883 (2018) Taryn Nishiki worked as office manager and paralegal for a law firm before resigning her employment via email on…
Law and the Workplace
DOL Issues Four New FLSA Opinion Letters
By Allan Bloom
Summer’s not over yet! On August 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued four new letters in response to requests for opinions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In…
Employment Law Watch
California Supreme Court finds mere minutes matter…sometimes
By Christina Tellado, Deisy Castro
Today, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated opinion in Troester v. Starbucks Corp., No. S234969 (Cal. July 26, 2018), regarding whether the long-standing de minimis doctrine adopted under the…
The Right Coast
The Canard About Falling Incomes – WSJ
As election season approaches, chants about the hollowed-out middle class predictably grow louder. Wages have been flat for decades, we re told. In 1973, the inflation-adjusted median income of men…
California Employment Law Update
Lower Court Should Have Certified Registered Nurses’ Class Action
By Tony Oncidi
Sali v. Corona Reg’l Med. Ctr., 2018 WL 2049680 (9th Cir. 2018) Marilyn Sali and Deborah Spriggs sued Corona Regional Medical Center on behalf of seven putative classes of registered…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Workers in OECD countries pay one quarter of wages in taxes
Workers in OECD countries paid just over a quarter of their gross wages in tax on average in 2017, with just over half of countries seeing small increases in the…
California Employment Law Update
California Rejects Federal Rule For Calculating Overtime Rate For Employees Who Earn Flat Sum Bonus
By Tony Oncidi
Alvarado v. Dart Container Corp. of Cal., 2018 WL 1146645 (Cal. S. Ct. 2018) Hector Alvarado, who worked as a warehouse associate for Dart, is a member of a putative…
Employment Law Business Guide
Massachusetts High Court Rules That Unused Accrued Sick Time Is Not “Wages”
This week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that unused accrued sick time does not constitute “wages” that must be paid upon termination under the Massachusetts Wage Act. This decision,…