California’s Minimum Wage Set to Increase to $16.00

California’s hourly minimum wage is set to increase again, from $15.50 to $16.00, for all employers effective January 1, 2024. Last month, the Director of California’s Department of Finance published a letter stating that the minimum wage is increasing by 3.5% to account for an inflation adjustment.

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July 21, 2023

Class Certification Win for O’Reilly Auto Workers in California

On Monday, July 10, 2023, a California federal judge certified a statewide class of O’Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC hourly workers over allegations that O’Reilly violated California wage statement laws. However, the judge declined to certify three other classes relating to claims that O’Reilly failed to provide lawful meal breaks.

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May 23, 2023

DOL Issues Guidance on Enforcement of Protections for Breastfeeding Employees

Last Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the US Department of Labor (“DOL”) Wage and Hour Division issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2023-2 (the “Bulletin”) to provide guidance on the enforcement of the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”). The PUMP Act was passed on December 29, 2022, by the US Congress. The new law seeks to expand rights for lactating and breastfeeding employees by requiring employers to provide all employees who are nursing with reasonable time and private space to express breast milk.

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April 18, 2023

Senator Brown Introduces Increased Federal Overtime Protections

Last month, US Senator Sherrod Brown introduced the Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023 (“ROP Act”) in Congress, a bill that seeks to increase the exempt salary threshold, thereby providing overtime protections to many more employees who are currently classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). If passed, the bill would update the FLSA, which was first enacted in 1938 and has not been significantly amended with respect to minimum wage and overtime exemptions since 2004.

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California’s Minimum Wage Set to Increase to $16.00

Class Certification Win for O’Reilly Auto Workers in California

DOL Issues Guidance on Enforcement of Protections for Breastfeeding Employees

Senator Brown Introduces Increased Federal Overtime Protections

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