California City & State Minimum Wages Beginning on January 1, 2024, the minimum wage for all companies, regardless of size, is $16.00/hour.
Increasing his employees’ wages will cost Johnson about $470,000 each year. He will have to raise prices anywhere from 5% to 15% at his stores, and is no longer hiring or seeking to open new locations in California, he said. “I try to do right by my employees. I pay them as muc...
If the measure passes, minimum wage would immediately increase to $17 an hour in California for employers with 26 or more employees. On Jan. 1, 2025, California workers at those businesses would receive a roughly 5.9% raise to $18, making the state's minimum wage the highest in the natio...
Back pay and back wages; unpaid wages for “on-call pay” or “standby pay”; Interest on those amounts; and Reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation costs. Employees whose employers do not provide meal or rest breaks as required under wage/hour law are entitled to receive one hour’s ...
A behind-the-scenes shot of employees in an In-N-Out kitchen, March 20, 2023, in San Francisco.Chan Long Hei / Sopa Images/Sipa USA via AP "California is home to more than 500,000 fast-food workers who for decades have been fighting for higher wages and better working conditions,...
You should expect an announcement in October 2023 that increases the minimum compensation for the computer professional exemption from overtime. You must also continue to monitor a series of local ordinances that establish minimum wages, higher than the state’s minimum wage. For example, the ...
1. Minimum Wage Increase for 2025 Starting January 1, 2025, California’s statewideminimum wagewill increase to$16.50 per hourfor all employers, regardless of size. This increase is part of the state’s ongoing effort to keep up with the cost of living and ensure fair wages for workers. ...
Violation of any or all of these various aspects of the federal law will almost certainly result in unpaid wages for the employee. Furthermore, there is a complex interplay between the federal and local (including state) laws that govern how and when employers must pay their employees. There ...
"Everyone in the healthcare sector understands that we have a workforce crisis and that wages are the essential prerequisite for any solution," Service Employees International Union-California executive director Tia Orr told The Associated Press. "With this increase, more workers will jo...
California’s ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of 2024 for employers with at least 26 employees, increasing to $18 per hour starting in January 2025. Without it, the state’s minimum wage is set to increase to...