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Generally speaking, California law requires employers to pay overtime compensation to non-exempt employees. Consistent with this, California law prohibits employers from entering into mutual wage agreements with non-exempt employees pursuant to which the non-exempt...
According to Outside Magazine, women who work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service "face not just aggressive come-ons and groping, but also an employment structure that remains intricately rigged against them and a complaint process designed to turn...
Make-up time is when a non-exempt employee takes time off from work on a certain day of the workweek and then “makes up” for that time by working the equivalent number of hours on another day during the same workweek. For example, let’s say you want to take off two...
Under both federal and California law, employers must provide a break period to accommodate an employee who wants to express breast milk for her infant child ("lactation break"). Below is additional information about the right to lactation breaks in California: No. 1:...
According to Forbes today, California could start requiring the boards of California-based public companies to meet gender diversity quotas, so that by the end of 2019, these companies' boards will each include at least one woman. Read the full article, entitled "What...
A CNBC article today offers some tips on overcoming age discrimination during a job interview and lists some of the signs that you may be facing age discrimination. Read the article, entitled "How to overcome age discrimination when interviewing for a job," here. The...
Generally speaking, California law prohibits employers from charging fees to job applicants as part of the job application process. This includes fees for copies of the job application, as well as fees associated with processing the applicant's job application....
Generally speaking, job applicants and employees with high blood pressure are protected from disability discrimination under California law. This is true, even if the applicant's or employee's high blood pressure does not currently impair his/her ability to work. In a...
In California, employers with 50 or more full-time, part-time, or temporary employees or independent contractors must provide sexual harassment prevention training regularly to their supervisors. The objectives of this training are: (a) to assist employers in changing...
California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (the "FEHA") prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. Notably, the California legislature amended the FEHA in 2014 so that it now states as follows: "Sexually harassing conduct need not be motivated by sexual desire."...