On May 2, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Corbin v. Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership held that both California law and Federal law permit an employer to round an employees' time card to the nearest 15 minutes (or smaller increment) so long as the employer rounds both up and down. The rounding policy must be neutral and not designed to benefit only the employer.

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California first enacted an equal pay statute in 1949. Existing law prohibited a California employer from paying women a lesser wage than the men at the same location if the two performed the same work, unless the wage differential could be justified by seniority, merit, or a system that qualitatively measured an employee’s quantity or quality of production. The existing law, however, was almost impossible to enforce because most California employees couldn't prove that an actual wage discrepancy existed.

Effective January 1, 2016, the new California Fair Pay Act (SB 358) set forth in Labor Code §1197.5, [...]

Recognizing that many California employees have had a difficult time collecting on wage claim judgments, the California legislature passed SB 588 and AB 980 to expand the authority of the California Labor Commissioner’s not only investigate wage claims, but also to issue citations and collect on a judgment relating to a violation of the minimum wage laws and the wage provisions in the Industrial Wage Orders. The California Labor Commissioner will now be able to investigate, issue citations, and collect judgments on violations [...]

Efforts to increase the minimum wage continue.

Effective January 1, 2016, California’s minimum wage is now $10 per hour. While higher than the federal minimum wage (presently $7.25), local cities in California are also moving full steam ahead with even higher local living wages. Employers should be mindful that these minimum wage increase [...]

Throughout California local cities are increasing their minimum local city living wages.

Los Angeles:   Effective July 1, 2016, Los Angeles Municipal Ordinance No.  [...]