BLR's fully revised and updated HR Management & Compliance Report, How To Comply with California Wage & Hour Law,covers everything you need to know to stay in compliance with the state's complex and ever-changing rules, laws and regulations in this area.
This information-packed 170+ page guide, written by an experienced California employment lawyer, features in-depth coverage of all the topics you need to know about in an easy-read, quick-reference style:
- The California Labor Code vs. the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Who the California wage/hour laws apply to
- The Wage Orders that cover your organization
- Hours of work—including travel time, make-up time, meal and rest periods, and the definition of "hours worked"
- The rules for hourly, salary, and piece-rate pay
- Bonuses, profit-sharing plans, and tips
- Overtime and double-time wages
- Alternative workweeks
- Tools and equipment, uniforms, and work-related expenses and losses
- Paid time off—vacation, PTO, holidays, and sick leave
- Unpaid time off
- When and how employees must be paid
- Payment of final wages upon termination
- Deductions from pay
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Pay-related discrimination
- A brand-new appendix of breaking wage/hour developments from the past year that you need to know about
- And much more!
Plus, the latest updates found in this edition:
- How an employer may be found jointly liable for its contractor’s violations of wage-and-hour, workers’ comp, and occupational safety laws
- How the minimum wage increase on January 1, 2016 will affect the salary threshold for exempt employees – and how the new federal overtime regulations may affect exemptions
- How a California Supreme Court decision may affect the “one day in seven” rest requirement
- The effect of the state supreme court’s ruling on sleep time that counts as “hours worked”
- The effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on post-shift activities as compensable work
- Minimum wage increases in San Francisco, San Jose, and other California cities
- How a decision by the state supreme court affects the timing of commission payments
- New wage statement requirements under California paid sick leave law
- Information on reimbursing employees who use their cell phones for work
- Learn about expanded protection from retaliation for whistleblowers
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