Effective January 1, 2016, 
California has increased its minimum wage from $9 per hour to $10 per hour. This is the second increase to the state minimum wage in the past year and a half. Remember, the obligation to pay minimum wage cannot be waived by any agreement, including collective bargaining agreements.
Employers must examine
The year-end holidays tend to be a time when employers and employees are either winding down for the year or making one last big push to close the year strongly. California employers should make time this week, though, to ensure they are ready for the new laws which will take effect in California this Friday
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Equal pay claims just got a lot
tougher to defend in California. Last month, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 358, a new law which aims to curb a statewide pay disparity between men and women. The law, dubbed the California Fair Pay Act, goes into effect on January 1, 2016 and requires immediate, affirmative assessment by most California employers.
Overview of the California Fair Pay Act.
Current law already requires California employers to pay men and women the same wage for performing equal work in the same establishment. The new law broadens that requirement. It removes the term “equal work” and replaces it with “substantially similar work.” This means work that is substantially similar when viewed as “a composite of skill, effort, and responsibility, and performed under similar working conditions.” The new law also removes the “same establishment” requirement, meaning that employees can now bring equal pay claims by showing the employer paid an opposite sex employee at a different location higher wages for substantially similar work.
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The 2014/2015 California legislative session may go down as one of the most productive in the state’s history, in terms of legislation passed and signed into law. According to the Associated Press, Governor Brown signed 808 bills, and vetoed 133 others. Lest employers worry that they were left out of the
