Erick J. Becker California adopted a rule in 2014 that waiting periods for new employees to be eligible for health benefits could not exceed 60 days. The rule was recently…
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Erick J. Becker The California Supreme Court just made it harder to treat commissioned salespeople as exempt from overtime and other wage and hour requirements, at least those that are…
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Erick J. Becker Godzilla, Frankenstein, the Mummy…scary monsters are a staple of Hollywood. For California employers, one of the scariest monsters to roam the state in recent years has been…cue…
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Erick Becker The short answer - they probably won’t, because California already significantly limits who can be considered exempt for overtime purposes. There are two major regulations under the federal…
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Erick Becker #4 Expansion of protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking California previously enacted protections for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, primarily the right…
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Erick Becker #5 Unfair Immigration Practices In the remaining weeks of 2013, we will be counting down the most important changes to California employment law for 2014. The first change…
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Erick Becker I hear from many human resources professionals that the often stressful and unenjoyable task of administering corrective discipline, including terminations, falls to them. It is counterproductive for a…
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Erick Becker Governor Brown will be signing legislation that raises the California minimum wage in two steps to $10 an hour, which will be highest in the nation. The first…
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Erick Becker While the administration has postponed the implementation of the employer insurance mandate until 2015, an important Obamacare deadline for employers…
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Erick Becker Most employers have realized the important role an employee handbook plays as an evidentiary tool in defending any type of…
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