By Rabbie Mojaddidi | Published April 28, 2020 | Posted in Employment Law | Tagged Tags: Employee Rights, FFCRA, food sector workers, supplemental paid sick leave |
Supplemental Paid Sick Leave For Food Sector Workers
Supplemental Paid Sick Leave For Food Sector Workers On April 16, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom, signed Executive Order N-51-20 (the “Order”) requiring large employers (500+ employees nationwide, not including independent contractors) of food sector workers to provide up to 80 hours of Supplemental Paid Sick Leave for qualifying reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
Read MoreEmployees Must Be Paid for Work Off the Clock
On Thursday, July 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of California issued its ruling in Troester v. Starbucks Corporation, No. S234969, 2018 WL 3582702, which held that California employees must be paid for all hours worked “off the clock,” including small time periods, which is a deviation from the federal law’s employer-friendly “de minimis” rule. What Read More
Read MoreEmployers Can (in Certain Situations) Legally Impose On-Premises Meal Periods
Since Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, California employers have taken great strides in ensuring its employees are provided their daily meal and rest breaks and some California employers have learned the hard way that failure to provide such breaks can expose them to costly penalties and damages. A win for employers came recently when Read More
Read MoreEmployers Brush Up on Employee’s Rights in Case of a Buyout
As the economic outlook becomes more stable in the U.S., more and more corporate mergers are taking place, with 2015 seeing a record high of $5 trillion in deals (Harvard Law School Forum On Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation). 2016 is anticipated to surpass deals made in 2015, which can mean great news for the Read More
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