Tag: exempt employees
California’s 2026 Minimum Wage Increases to $16.90 Per Hour
On August 1, the California Department of Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw officially certified that beginning January 1, 2026, California’s minimum wage will increase to $16.90 per hour…
Exempt Employees Wage and Hour Essentials Webinar
Editor’s note: This blog was updated at 4:59 p.m. on June 5, 2024, to reflect changes in date to both the exempt employees webinar (from…
Exempt Employee Can Be Required to Work Specific Hours
Our company’s business hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The payroll manager, who is classified as an exempt employee, often…
Properly Classifying Employees as Exempt, Nonexempt
In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber employment law experts Matthew Roberts and Ellen Savage discuss how to properly classify employees as either exempt…
No Retroactive Fix for Underpayment to Exempt Employee
I recently took over as HR director for my company, and I discovered that for the last seven months, the company wasn’t paying the required…
Flexible Schedules Can Create Wage, Hour Pitfalls for Employers
Remote working during the pandemic provided quite a bit of flexibility for both employers and employees. Now that we’re in a period of relative stability…
Minimum Wage Increases Coming January 1
As employers gear up for the new laws that take effect January 1, 2022, they can’t forget about the ever-increased minimum wage rates that occur…
Wage and Hour Considerations for Remote Workers
How do an employer’s pay obligations differ when an hourly/nonexempt employee is working remotely from home? It’s important to keep in mind that when having…
Power Outage Today? What You Need to Know About Paying Employees
Today, more than one million California residents are expected to be without power due to the first phase of PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff. Expected…
Do Local Minimum Wages Change the Exempt Salary Test?
A local minimum wage applies to our nonexempt employees. When the minimum wage increases on July 1, does that mean the salary test for our…
