Employment Law News

2021 Minimum Wage Law

Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage increases to $14 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees and $13 per hour for employees with 25 or fewer employees.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm

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AB 749 creates new Code of Civil Procedure section 1002.5.

An agreement to settle an employment dispute shall not contain a provision prohibiting, preventing, or otherwise restricting a settling party that is an aggrieved person from obtaining future employment with the employer against which the aggrieved person has filed a claim, or any parent company, subsidiary, division, affiliate, or contractor of the employer.

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California Supreme Court strikes down employers' rounding policy.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/california-supreme-court-rules-against-starbucks-in-wage-case-14664299

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Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles

No. S222732 (Cal. Sup. Ct. Apr. 30, 2018)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonymarks/2018/05/29/the-california-supreme-court-deals-a-blow-to-independent-contractors/#5a2c1cb70a18

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