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A July 2018 decision of the California Supreme Court, Troester v. Starbucks, significantly increased employers’ responsibility to ensure tha

California state law regarding employee pay is changing in 2018. Here are several things you need to be aware of … The minimum wage has been increased... Beginning January 1, 2018, California’s minimum wage is going up. Employers with 25 or fewer employees must pay their workers at least $10.50 per hour Employers with 26 or more employees must pay their workers at least $11 per hour Additionally some localities have passed their own ordinances that set the local minimum wage

The IRS prohibits employers from offering stipends or reimbursing employees for individual health plans, regardless of the tax treatment of

We recently received this question that you may be wondering about as well... "A non-exempt employee has asked to be paid for the hour she spent checking work email while she was out on vacation. We didn’t request, require, or authorize this work. How do we handle this?" Here is the answer from one of our HR Pros, Jenny... "Although you didn’t give this non-exempt employee permission to check her work email while she was on vacation, you will need to pay her for the time she