Monthly Archives: July 2008

SF City Overtime Redux

Looks like the overtime for some San Francisco city employees has once again become excessive. This seems to happen every year. This year the Supervisors are actually looking at doing something about it. From SFGate: The city’s spending on overtime … Continue reading

Governor Threatens Federal Minimum Wage

In an effort to save the state of California money, Governor Schwarzenegger has indicated that will sign an Executive Order that would call for all state government workers to be paid the federal minimum wage ($6.55/hour as of today) rate … Continue reading

Paranoid?

Step Right Up

The HR Carnival has set up its big top and the show is about to start.

4th District Court of Appeals and Meal Breaks

In a precedent setting decision, the 4th District Court of Appeals determined today that California employers are no longer responsible for for ensuring that their employees take meal breaks but rather, just that the meal breaks are available for the … Continue reading

DHS v. SHRM

Oh boy. This looks like a good one. Stewart Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security really threw down the gauntlet regarding SHRM’s (Society for Human Resources Management) opposition to E-Verify when he made this statement: … Continue reading

Cintas & Hayward Living Wage

I wrote about this quite awhile ago. In this particular case, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 219 Cintas employees who alleged that they were not appropriately because they had not been paid according to the living … Continue reading

Too Old for Google?

Valleywag actually brings up an interesting point here. Does Google promote age discrimination with its “Work Hard, Play Hard” tag line? I must admit that I’ve been incredibly annoyed at Valleywag lately due to personal reasons, but I give them … Continue reading

New I-9 Form

Found here. Must be used starting…well, last week. 7/1/2008. Forgive me. I was on vacation. From everything.

Carla Zilbersmith

Today I was reading an article about a performer in the Bay Area by the name of Carla Zilbersmith who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the same disease that took my mother’s life in 2002. Normally I stay away from … Continue reading