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Jim Brown and Marc Koonin of the California Employment Law Letter offer a useful Top 10 list of “Need to Knows” about California wage & hour laws:
- Know California’s daily and weekly overtime rates for various hours worked;
- Overtime requirements apply to almost all types of wages, not just hourly wages or salaries;
- You must compensate employees for all hours you “suffer or permit” them to work;
- Be familiar with the specific “wage order” that applies to your workforce;
- Just because an employee is exempt as an executive, administrative, or professional employee under federal law, it doesn’t make him exempt under California law; Continue reading
Implementing a Trade Secret Protection Program
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has an interview with Alan Gutterman regarding how to implement a trade secret protection program. Gutterman recites some of the common elements to such a program: