Minimum Wage Increases:As of Jan. 1, 2023, the California state minimum wage will increase to $15.50 for all employers, regardless of employee headcount. This also means that as of Jan. 1, 2023, exempt employees in California must be paid a minimum annual salary of $64,480. "Living w...
As of January 1, 2024, all California employers, regardless of size, must pay their employees at least a minimum wage of $16.00 per hour. Please be mindful of local minimum wage ordinances. The minimum salary that must be paid to exempt employees in California is a function of the minimum...
Lastly, the health care worker minimum wage alters how exempt covered health care employees are paid. Unlike the state law where an exempt employee is paid a salary at the equivalence of two times the standard statewide minimum wage, exempt covered health care employees must be paid the higher...
Proposition 32 did not pass in California, meaning that effective Jan. 1, 2025, the state minimum wage will increase to $16.50 per hour for both small and large California employers. This also means that the new state salary basis threshold for most California exemptions will increa...
As mentioned above, California law requires exempt employees to be paid a monthly salary of at least twice the state minimum wage for full-time employment to qualify as exempt. For these purposes, full-time employment is considered 40 hours per week.36 In 2023, employees are entitled to ...
In response to the passing of A1278B by the New York State Assembly on June 20, 2023, the state’s labor law now expressly prohibits the enforcement of non-compete agreements among workers. This law marks a significant change, following the Federal Trade Commission’s proposal for a ...
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What –Minimum wage increase and exempt salary increase, effective January 1, 2023 Statewide Minimum Wage California’s minimum wage for all employers regardless of size increased to $15.50 per hour. Exempt Employee Minimum Salaries The minimum salary threshold for exempt employees increased to $1,24...
California’s $20 an hour fast-food minimum wage took effect two months ago, and the casualties are mounting. Rubio’s Coastal Grill, famous for its fish tacos, closed 48 restaurants in the state on Friday. …Gov. Gavin Newsom responded by blaming Rubio’s. …Rubio’s didn’t specifically...
1 Cal.4th 1083, 1095 [“The employer is bound, at a minimum, to know the fundamental public policies of the state and nation as expressed in their constitutions and statutes; so limited, the public policy exception presents no impediment to employers that operate within the bounds of law. ...