California State Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su announced last week that a settlement of nearly $5 million has been reached in a statewide lawsuit filed to recover unpaid minimum wages for real estate agents working for a California company.
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Governor Edmund G. Brown vetoed a California Chamber of Commerce-opposed bill, AB 889 (Ammiano; D-San Francisco), which would have provided the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) with authority to develop regulations placing wage-and-hour mandates on working families.
AB 889 would have required the DIR to adopt regulations no later than January 2014 for “domestic work employees,” which the bill generally defined as any individual who performs “domestic work” such as housekeeping, child care and other “household occupations.”
The bill would have required the regulations to include provisions addressing overtime compensation, meal and rest periods and sleep periods, or to simply adopt the regulations set forth in Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 15.
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California imposes a prevailing wage law on employers who contract to provide services or construction work for public entities on public works projects of more than $1,000 (Labor Code sec. 1771). According to the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), the purpose of prevailing wage laws is to make sure that getting a public works contract is not based on paying lower wage rates than a competitor.
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HR Allen Consulting Services is reminding employers that they must post a summary of job-related injuries and illnesses from 2011 at their place of business by February 1.
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) requires employers to display the Cal/OSHA Log 300 Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses (Form 300A) from February 1 to April 30 for employee review.
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