Raising payroll taxes enough to keep the government’s entitlements promises to future retirees would require doubling or tripling payroll taxes; that means 30 to 40% of a worker’s wages would go towards retirement benefits alone, not to mention his other federal, income, state, and local ...
The California Association of Highway Patrolmen, which represents about 7,000 officers, is the only state worker union that does not have to bargain over wage increases because of the law that sets officer compensation based on what other agencies pay. A bill this...
Fire has been really important in this regard because the Indigenous people in this state have long known that they used fire and still use fire to manage the landscapes, to produce the goods and services, the cultural objects that they need. I think it is the better guest model that uses...
” Laid Off Before Bonus – No Right to Purely Discretionary Bonuses A discretionary bonus is a payment given to a worker under circumstances entirely determined by the employer’s judgment. The decision whether to offer it, as well as when and how much to pay, is completely up to the ...
Obviously, when companies use contractors they need not pay them benefits and are not subject to hourly work rules, wage requirements and the host of labor regulations the state applies to permanent workers. The court tossed out the old, flexible way of determining whether a worker is a ...
California’s state child labor laws dictate when minors can work and for how long. The rules depend on the minor’s age, as well as whether school is in session.School is not in sessionWhen school is not in session, minors under the age of 16 can work up to 8 hours per day and ...
Pizza Hut announced that they willlay offmore than a thousand delivery drivers. One such driver, Michael Ojeda, understandably asked, “What’s the point of a raise if you don’t have a job?” Workers who still have jobs will lose them because now their employers have more incentive to ...
California's new law boosting the minimum wage for fast-food workers in the state to $20 an hour went into effect Monday, impacting restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, AB 1228, in...
California would become the first state in the country to consider such a law. However, more than a dozen countries have alreadyenacted similar laws. Kenya was the latest to do so, according to the World Economic Forum. France was the first to enact a right-to-disconnect law in 2...
California Overtime Law – What Every Worker Needs to Know California overtime (OT) laws require non-exempt employees to earn one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay when they work extra hours. In some cases, employees receive double-time pay for working overtime. This chart illustra...