By Laurie Nooren, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP For years, California courts have allowed the practice of rounding in/out times for the day up to the nearest quarter of an hour. This was before any real technology was available that allowed employers to easily calculate...
By Stacey Sommerhauser, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP The courts have been busy this summer as another case was decided, this time in the area of reimbursement of expenses for employees working remotely. If you have been our client for any amount of time, you know we have...
By Jennifer L. Lippi, JD, SPHR, PHRca California Employers have long been subject to the state’s Fair Chance Act, which among other things, requires employees to wait until a conditional offer of employment is made to inquire about or consider an applicant’s...
By Kate Kriner, PHRca As you may have discovered in the last few years with the huge increase in remote work, on-boarding now has some new unique challenges. One of the many challenges for employers is arranging for a physical inspection of the employment...
By Kate Kriner, PHRca The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“USICE”) has announced the inevitable end to the COVID-19 exception from the physical inspection of employment eligibility documents (i.e.,...
By Laurie Nooren, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-CP Do you have temporary, seasonal, part-time, on-call, inactive or “as needed” employees on your payroll? We will often ask clients “how many employees do you have?” This question is asked to determine which employment laws an...
By Jennifer Lippi, SPHR, PHRca In a recent National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision McLaren v. Macomb, the Board ruled that offering severance agreements with certain confidentiality and/or non-disparagement provision violates the National Labor Relations...
By Stacey Sommerhauser, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP We all know if a non-exempt employee works in California for more than eight hours in any one workday or more than 40 hours in a workweek, then overtime wages are due at the rate of one and one-half the employee’s...
By Kate Kriner, PHRca We are well into the 21st century and many of the workplace practices and benefits have been around so long we just assume they are based on laws, regulations and rules. In fact, many of these practices have no legal basis. Let’s separate some...
