The Ninth Circuit clarifies wage and hour obligations in two important cases, while the Department of Fair Employment and Housing provides more guidance on California employers’ pay data collection obligations. Read our brief summaries of these and other developments for February 2021.

  1. Employee per diem may be wages for calculation of regular rate of pay
  2. Wage statement requirements extend to pilots and flight attendants who do not work the majority of the time in California
  3. California pay data collection and reporting requirements: With deadline on the horizon, the DFEH issues a template and FAQs
  4. Appellate arbitral review provision held substantively unconscionable, but severable
  5. COVID-19 emergency temporary standards survive legal challenge

 



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