TheCalifornia Labor and Workforce Development Agencyintroduced an ABC test to help distinguish between employees and independent contractors. The ABC test requires an individual to be labeled as an employee unless the hiring company can prove the worker: ...
PAGA allows workers to pursue civil penalties on the state’s behalf, with a quarter of any award going to the employees who brought the claim and the rest to the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency to help fund its enforcement of labor rules...
until Dec. 31, 2026, revives claims seeking to recover damages suffered as a result of a sexual assault that occurred on or after Jan. 1, 2009, that would otherwise be barred solely because the statute of limitations has or had expired. The bill also revives claims seeking to recover dam...
California joins almost a dozen other states, including Illinois, New York, and Oregon, in enacting union-backed statutes that prohibit so-called “captive audience” meetings. The Teamsters… Posted in California Labor & Employment Law, California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, California ...
–The Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and its constituent departments are authorized to collect civil penalties for specified labor law violations.The Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) allows aggrieved employees to recover civil penalties previously collectible only by LWDA. ...
PAGA allows any “aggrieved employee” to step into the shoes of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) to initiate an action against an employer. The employee is empowered to seek damages individually in addition to being able to seek damages with all other employees. Whil...
(November 5, 2024) In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Associate General Counsel Matthew Roberts and CalChamber Senior Policy Advocate Ashley Hoffman discuss the recent guidance released by the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency on changes to the California Private Attorn...
Labor and Workforce Development Agency State of California Quentin Wright Chief Information Officer Department of Technology, GovOps State of California Rami Zakaria Chief Information Officer County of Sacramento Sacramento County Industry Representatives ...
California Labor & Workforce Dev. Agency, 2019 Cal.App. LEXIS 10 (Cal.Ct.App. Jan. 4, 2019), the Court held that the Labor Code’s requirement that piece-rate employees be separately compensated for “nonproductive time” was not unconstitutionally vague. With California’s “productive vs....
Erick Serrato, Merced County’s director of workforce investment, said the county won’t claim most of the federal money available for temporary disaster-relief jobs. Initially, the county workforce agency planned to hire workers to assist in the town...