Wage-Hour

Among the various wage-related legislation Governor Brown signed into law recently is a provision that will allow housekeepers, nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers in private homes to collect overtime…

As expected, Governor Brown signed legislation to raise California’s minimum wage today.  The new law raises the minimum wage to $9 per hour on July 1, 2014 and to $10 per…

Beginning on January 2, 2015, the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime protections will apply to home care assistance workers who work with the elderly and people with…

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in a decision authored by Judge Richard Posner, Teed v. Thomas & Betts Power Solutions, L.L.C., held that federal common…

A recently published appellate decision ordering class certification in a wage/hour class action, Bluford v. Safeway Stores, Inc. has multiple teaching points, some predictable and some unexpected.  Bluford predictably requires…

It is hard to think of a job in the United States that does not involve some type of multi-tasking.  Every day, employees all around the country talk on the…

When the California Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brinker Restaurants a year ago, it was greeted with predictions that it would stem the flow of meal and rest…

In yet another sign that the tide is turning in employers’ favor on the wage/hour class action front, a California appellate court has upheld the denial of certification in a…

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a plaintiff could not maintain a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when her former employer had offered her full monetary…

Over the last two years, California employers have gotten progressively better news from the state and federal courts on the wage and hour class action front.  The trend began in…