Court Says Employers Not Required to Make Certain Employees Go to Lunch
On April 12, 2012, The California Supreme Court decided that employers were not required to make certain employees take lawfully authorized lunch breaks in a case that had an effect on many companies and employees. The undisputed judgment arrived following the employees’ lawyer claiming that abuses were usual and common when corporations were not demanded […]
Gucci Struck with Class Action Claim over Wage and Labor Violations
On July 23, 2014, Gucci had been hit with a class action claim, which asserted that the Italian design house fell short of sufficiently compensating its workers. Janine Oda and Gissella Velasquez filed the complaint in California Superior Court in Los Angeles in support of themselves and other anonymous staff members who had worked at […]
California’s “Cool-Down” Periods and Avoid the Burn of Wage and Hour Class Litigation
Just when one might have thought California employment law couldn’t get any stickier for employers, in January 2014 the California Legislature turned up the heat by expanding meal and rest break penalty provisions. Now there’s a new penalty for failure to provide “cool-down,” or recovery, periods to prevent heat illness. Before, heat illness prevention […]
Google Just Got Hit with a Major Class Action Lawsuit
Hagens Berman, a consumer rights law firm, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, claiming “the search engine giant illegally monopolized, and financially and creatively stagnated the American market of internet and mobile search.” Do they have a case? The lawsuit accuses Google of creating secret “Mobile Application Distribution Agreements.” Berman believes these agreements were hidden from […]
Employees Forced to Remain on-call without pay
California law places limits on forced overtime for workers. Outside of safety standards, there is no legal labor requirement to stop an employee from working as many hours of overtime as he or she wishes, but an hourly or non-exempt employee who works more than 8 hours in a day must be paid extra for […]