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Second Meal Break Waivers for Health Care Workers Impermissible on Shifts Longer Than 12 Hours
March 2, 2015 by Vishtasp Soroushian
California State employment law requires employers to provide employees working more than 10 hours per day with a second 30-minute meal period. However, if an employee works 12 or less hours, the worker can consent… Read More
New Year Brings New Commercial Driver Rules
February 23, 2015 by Teague Paterson
States Must Enforce Cell-Phone Use Restrictions and Commercial Driver License (CDL) Penalties As of January 3, 2015, states have begun enforcement of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) rule prohibiting the “use” of mobile… Read More
Employment Law Ruling – ‘On-Call’ Rest Breaks Permissible in California
February 16, 2015 by Christopher Hammer
A California Court of Appeal recently held that employers are not required to relieve their employees of all duties during paid rest breaks. (Augustus v. ABM Security Services, Inc., 14 C.D.O.S. 1123 (January 30, 2015).) … Read More
NLRB Improves Arbitration Deferral Standard
February 10, 2015 by Susan Garea
The NLRB for many years has placed on hold union and employee unfair labor practice (ULP) charges filed during the term of a collective bargaining agreement, and instead deferred the charge to the parties’ contractual… Read More
2015 Legislative Update
February 2, 2015 by Peter McEntee
In this year’s legislative session, as has become a tradition for Governor Brown, a number of labor and employment related statutes were signed (and others vetoed). Some of these new laws are groundbreaking and provide… Read More
Yard-Man is Dead, Long Live Yard-Man!
January 28, 2015 by Teague Paterson
In M&G Polymers v. Tackett a unanimous Supreme Court overturned the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ seminal Yard-Man decision, but a concurring opinion by four justices has widened the door for retirees in other circuits… Read More
On-Call Employee Sleep Time Can Count As Compensable ‘Hours Worked’
January 23, 2015 by Stephanie Platenkamp
On January 8, 2015, the California Supreme Court published an important decision confirming the California rules defining when on-call hours are compensable, and, for the first time, ruling that on-call sleeping hours must be included… Read More
A Message to Labor from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 19, 2015 by Teague Paterson
Today is an important day to many of us in the labor movement who, like Dr. King, see labor rights, democratic participation and shared prosperity as civil rights to which all are entitled. In the… Read More
NLRB Revises Managerial Employee Exclusion and Religious Institution Exemption in Higher Education
January 7, 2015 by Teague Paterson
In the December 16 decision in Pacific Lutheran University, the NLRB extended the reach of the National Labor Relations Act (Act) with respect to higher education faculty under the religious institution exemption and the managerial… Read More
San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass “Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights”
December 29, 2014 by Vishtasp Soroushian
San Francisco has passed an ordinance that will protect its retail workers from terms of employment that involve irregular or changing shift schedules. The ordinance, popularly referred to as the Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights,… Read More
