CA Supreme Court Decision Regarding Bonus Payments to Employees

On March 5, 2018, the California Supreme Court finally weighed in with regard to how overtime must be calculated when an employee is paid a flat-sum bonus.  The Court determined that the DLSE flat-sum bonus formula is the proper method for ...

Customer service really does matter!

A couple of weeks ago I called ahead to a Panda Express for a “to go” order (thinking that would save time). When I walked in to pick it up I counted 11 employees standing in small groups talking and laughing, and one employee helping a ...

La stazione ferroviaria è malata! (“The train station is sick”)

Years ago my wife and I got to live in Italy for several months and came across this sign one day when traveling.  I remembered it the other day and realized that California employers and business owners play too fairly!  The California ...

David Blaine’s Friday Musing…

I was recently interviewing a guy for a harassment investigation and he said “at the end of the day, who are you going to believe.” What I wanted to say was “not you, and I don’t have to wait that long.” It got me thinking about cliché ...