Wage & Hour Laws

For business owners, all that matters -- in many cases -- is their bottom line. They’re just trying to make as much as possible and keep expenses as far down as possible. They may talk about other goals -- reaching the community, expanding their business, meeting...

You typically do not work weekends, but just work from 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. You get an hourly wage and put in exactly 40 hours every week. If your boss tells you to come in on Saturday and work a weekend shift, do you get a higher pay rate?  Naturally, you...

Many employees in the San Diego area are affected by the mandatory overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In our last post, we discussed exemptions from these requirements that apply to executive and managerial personnel. This post will continue the...

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act provides many protections for workers in San Diego. Understanding these protections can be an important way of ensuring fair and lawful treatment by employers. One of the most significant protections in the statute are the minimum...

Most employers in San Diego understand that they must pay employees in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a federal statute that requires employers to pay overtime for work in excess of 40 hours per week. Unfortunately, many employers attempt to circumvent...

Over the past few decades there have been many efforts to help ensure fair pay between men and women in the workplace. However, a wage and hour dispute isn't usually about any type of pay disparity based on gender; on the contrary, a wage and hour dispute is about...

Like the federal government and many other states, California has rules specifying when children under 18 can work. The idea behind these rules is to protect children from abuse and make sure they are able to get the education they need without a job interfering.Every...

If you're an employee working in the U.S., you may have heard of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FSLA is a federal law that protects all employees, no matter what state you work in, although certain states may also provide their own laws and regulations to protect...

Generally, overtime refers to an additional rate of pay that is required if an individual works over a certain number of hours in a given day or week. So, how do you know if you are entitled to receive overtime from your employer?The short answer is that all nonexempt...

Most San Diego workers are aware that hourly employees have to be paid overtime, at one-and-a-half times their normal hourly wage, if they wind up working more than 40 hours in a given week. However, many if not most employees in the area are not hourly workers but...