On June 30, 2011, in a case of potentially great significance for employers around the nation, the California Supreme Court ruled that out-of-state employees working in California for California-based employers must be paid overtime in compliance with California’s generous overtime laws. Although the case, Sullivan v Oracle, raises more questions than it answers, out-of–state employers …
WorkForce Software receives a consistently high volume of inquiries about California (CA) leave laws, and to assist with those inquiries, we turned to our Director of Compliance Paul Kramer. We asked Paul to summarize CA leave laws in a blog post, and he immediately noted that the regulatory environment was too complex for a single …
In the past, when a collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) expired and a new agreement was still being negotiated, mandatory subjects of bargaining such as wages and health insurance benefits continued until a new agreement was reached. This meant that some employers were responsible for step increases in wages and the increased cost of benefits during …
As the years go by, employees are learning more and more ways to abuse FMLA leave – especially intermittent and reduced schedule leave. It’s not uncommon for managers to receive higher volumes of intermittent FMLA leave requests at the ends of a work day or work week, and before or after a holiday, than during other stretches …
