Minimal Wage - Some Exciting Details

Consideration California Employers: On January 1, 2008, the Minimum Wage rises to $eight per hour from $7.50. So, you will want to make suitable changes to your payroll methods. Further, several employers also are raising their employee's wages that are over the minimal wage in buy to retain them.

New I-9 Varieties, employment verification varieties will be needed efficient December 26, 2007, for all new hires. Count on an boost in perform area raids. So, do preventative audits now, and make contingency programs for what to do if you are raided.

Expect a tidal wave of class action wage and hour lawsuits for unpaid overtime, missed meal and rest periods, and functioning off the clock. The California State Supreme Court ruled this yr that the remedy for a missed meal or break time period is deemed to be a 'wage' and not a 'penalty'.

Consequently, the statute of limitations is now four many years and not one 12 months, making a massive incentive for class action lawsuits. Accordingly, do a preventative audit now to decide no matter whether you have misclassified any exempt employees or independent contractors. Be positive that employees are taking their 30 minute unpaid meal intervals and there 10 minute paid rest breaks and, most importantly, that they are documented.

Anticipate a flood of Sexual Harassment Lawsuits. As a result, it is essential that all employers who have 50 or much more workers give their supervisors with a minimum of 2 hrs of sexual harassment prevention coaching to be in compliance with the law. More, employers need to have written Sexual Harassment Policies. It is not adequate just to have them you must employ them and efficiently talk them to your supervisors and workers.

In addition there are a quantity of minor modifications that are a lot more of a paperwork nuisance for small firms, this kind of as, AB 650, which needs all employers to notify employees about eligibility demands to obtain the Earned Cash flow Tax Credit score, a federal program to aid reduced-cash flow staff. The notices should go out at the identical time or inside a week of the IRS W-two kind or 1099 form utilized for independent contractors.

AB392, which calls for employers with at least 25 employees to give workers as many as 10 unpaid days off when a husband or wife is on depart from military deployment.

AB 869, which demands state labor code enforcers to cross-check out with payroll data to make sure all employers are supplying workers compensation insurance.