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Here’s a selection of regulations that are also distinctive to California or come with abrupt requirements here:
• Most states don’t permit workers to collect overtime until they exceed 40 hours of work in a single week. In California, workers are allowed to it if they work more than eight hours in a single day.
• Federal standards exempted many higher-level workers from getting overtime. California’s standards are more complex.
• The state obliges that companies to let workers take a paid 30-minute meal break for every five hours of work and a paid 10-minute rest period for every four hours worked.
• California’s $9 an hour minimum wage go beyond the U.S. rate of $7.25 an hour, and the state’s minimum wage arranged to increase to $10 an hour in 2016. San Diego voters also are set to agree that year whether to progressively increase the city’s minimum wage to $11.50 an hour.
• The state’s Private Attorney General Act allows workers charging labor violations to file suits seeking civil penalties for faults that may involve multiple employees rather than rely on a state agency to do so.
• California has more strict reporting requirements in advance of layoffs. The federal directive needs companies with more than 100 full-time workers to inform workers 60 days before major closings and large-scale layoffs. The similar California law applies to companies with 75 or more full-time or part-time workers.
• Almost all California companies will be mandatory to provide workers at least three paid sick days a year thanks to new legislation authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this summer. Sick leave is not required under federal law.
• California mostly bans non-compete clauses, making it far at ease for workers to start new companies and move to other ones and share the knowledge they’ve gained with a previous employer.
Details at The Most Frustrating Labor Rules For California Businesses
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