An employer that rewrote its training repayment and bonus clawback terms for 2026 can easily assume the job is finished, or that the latest delay means it can wait. Neither holds. AB 1697, signed September 30, 2026 with an urgency…
The comments started first, and then the demotion came. Maybe it was jokes about who you date, a nickname you never asked for, and then a reassignment that made no business sense. It is easy to believe the insults are…
You took on the new responsibilities months ago, and your paycheck never noticed. Your title may not have changed either. You are training people, covering the manager’s calls, and signing off on work you used to hand up. This happens…
You were already negotiating your exit, and then you mentioned something that had been bothering you. The next offer that came back was smaller. This happens often enough in exit negotiations that there is a settled way to look at…
A common assumption among employers running salaried teams: paying well above the state minimum wage means exempt classifications are safe by a comfortable margin. That margin shrinks every year California’s minimum wage rises, and it is about to shrink again….
You earn a flat production bonus, say two hundred dollars for hitting a monthly output target, on top of your regular hourly pay. The bonus shows up on your check, but your overtime rate for that pay period looks the…
You clock out for a meal break, but your employer asks you to drive from one job site to another during that same window. By the time you park and actually sit down to eat, fifteen or twenty minutes of…
A lot of California employers assume that once an employee is working temporarily outside the state, California wage law stops applying to that stretch of work. That assumption is often wrong, and it can be expensive. In Sullivan v. Oracle…
You heard tips and overtime are tax-free now, and you started planning around a bigger paycheck. Not so fast. A lot of California workers are making that same assumption, and it only tells half the story. A new federal tax…
A client told me what her manager said the third time she worked through lunch that week: “Nobody’s forcing you to skip lunch. That’s on you.” Wrong. That single sentence is doing a lot of work, and almost none of…
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