Remember small business owners, effective January 1, 2022, we will have minimum wage increases for the State of California and several cities in the San Francisco, Bay Area. State of CA: The minimum wage for employers with 25 employees or…
NEW EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR 2022
This coming year we will have a lot of new employment laws that may affect your business. Some of them are just additions to existing laws yet some others are new. Let’s get started: AB1003 Wage theft: Intentional wage theft…
Workers’ Compensation basics (part 1)
Last week, I was talking to a restaurant owner and he mentioned he had a problem with an employee who got injured on the job. After the injury, the employee went to the hospital; soon thereafter the hospital staff was…
Most workers are employees and not independent contractors!
On July 15, 2015 the Department of Labor (DOL) issued new guidance and says that “most workers are employees” under the FLSA. This guidance draws an “economic realities” test to determine whether or not workers are economically dependent on the…
You got the burden of proof! (Onus probandi)
When I meet with business owners and talk about the HR services their company may need, I generally find out that they have a lot of misconceptions about employee classification. Misclassifying employees can land a business in a lot…
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