by Adam Treiger | Apr 20, 2024 | Labor, Legal
Are stock option grants “wages” under California law? The recent case of Shaw v. Skillz, Inc. answers that question in the negative – i.e., holding that stock option grants are not “wages” under the CA Labor Code. The CA Labor Code defines “wages” as “all amounts for...
by Adam Treiger | Feb 27, 2024 | Labor, Legal
For a long time, the rule in California was that employers could legally round employee time punches to the nearest five minutes, one-tenth or one-quarter of an hour. However, two recent Court of Appeal decisions have questioned that long-standing rule. First, in...
by Adam Treiger | Apr 19, 2023 | Labor, Legal
One Minute Update: In 2019, California passed AB51, prohibiting employers from requiring job applicants or employees to sign a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition of employment. AB51 was quickly enjoined by a federal trial court, and, in February...
by Adam Treiger | Feb 16, 2023 | Labor, Legal
One Minute Update: Effective as of January 1, 2023, AB 1041 amended California’s Paid Sick Leave law to allow an employee to care for a “designated person.” This term is defined differently than it is in other areas of the law (e.g., in the California Family Rights...
by James Nagy | Jan 19, 2023 | Labor, Legal
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by Adam Treiger | Jan 18, 2023 | Legal
One Minute Legal Update – Adam Treiger – January 2023 At the end of December, 2022, the California Court of Appeal, in Parsons v. Estenson Logistics, LLC, held that for employees who are paid weekly, when the seventh calendar day following the close of the...
